Comment by moritzwarhier

> I think the problem here is that we have a bias for those who agree with us that outweighs our patience in searching for oppositional opinions that are well founded.

This is a very agreeable statement, but I'd add that politics is not about finding the Kantian truth of what's best for everyone (inside the country? globally? also immigrants? lazy and ugly natives?).

It's about balancing interests. Of course, the idea of free market democracy was/is that both goals eventually converge.