Elizabeth Bruenig

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Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

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

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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

those are the basic elements of love: to will the good of another person, and to be vulnerable to becoming someone different in the process. it turns out that you actually need to love your fellow citizens — indeed, to love your own enemies — for liberal democracy to work. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Jan. 7, 2021 Hibernated