Elizabeth Bruenig

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Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

and to persuade one's opponent you have to understand them, because you can't appeal to anything — reason, interests, values, emotions — without knowledge of those things first, and you can't succeed in persuasion without genuine knowledge of those things. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Jan. 7, 2021 Hibernated

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Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

the reality is that liberal democracy depends upon its citizenry – minimally! — desiring peace not just for their own factions, but for the entire populace. this is the substantive commitment that makes humankind — an essentially warlike breed — agree to persuade and be persuaded — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Jan. 7, 2021 Hibernated

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but to learn something is to be made vulnerable to it, because the openness that permits learning requires that one entertains the possibility that they may be changed by what they discover. and this very vulnerability, and this commitment to peace for every countryman — — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Jan. 7, 2021 Hibernated