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diff --git a/content/entry/bringing-civility-to-public-discourse-with-the-steel-man-technique.md b/content/entry/bringing-civility-to-public-discourse-with-the-steel-man-technique.md index ecb76e7..a1e9748 100644 --- a/content/entry/bringing-civility-to-public-discourse-with-the-steel-man-technique.md +++ b/content/entry/bringing-civility-to-public-discourse-with-the-steel-man-technique.md @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ date: 2020-12-01T00:00:00 draft: false --- # The United States in 2020 -The political situation in the United States right now is tense, to say the least. President-elect Joe Biden won the 2020 general election. Meanwhile the bullshitter[1] continues to make baseless claims of massive mail-in voter fraud to discredit the election results. No doubt the tens of millions of Americans duped into his personality cult[2] will fall for his lies, with some taking political action as we near inauguration day[3]. The rest of Americans are bewildered by how the troll[4] even got elected in the first place. So there is a heavy emotional and ideological divide in America today and I think any American half paying attention senses it. +The political situation in the United States right now is tense, to say the least. President-elect Joe Biden won the 2020 general election. Meanwhile the bullshitter[1] continues to make baseless claims of massive mail-in voter fraud to discredit the election results. No doubt the tens of millions of Americans duped into his personality cult[2] will fall for his lies, with some taking political action as we near inauguration day[3]. The rest of Americans are bewildered by how the wannabe dictator[4] even got elected in the first place. So there is a heavy emotional and ideological divide in America today and I think any American half paying attention senses it. Therefore I feel it my duty as a citizen to do what I can to bring people together in these divided times. I don't think it's good to create consensus for the sake of it by suggesting everyone take the middle ground[5]. No, the goal is to collectively arrive at truth, which may or may not lie somewhere in the middle. So in this post I'm going to suggest a technique I think will drastically improve the public discourse which, I feel, is one of America's biggest problems right now. @@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ Link(s): [1: https://stallman.org/glossary.html#bullshitter](https://stallman.org/glossary.html#bullshitter) [2: https://wikiless.org/wiki/Cult_of_personality](https://wikiless.org/wiki/Cult_of_personality) [3: https://wikiless.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_inauguration](https://wikiless.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_inauguration) -[4: https://stallman.org/glossary.html#troll](https://stallman.org/glossary.html#troll) +[4: Wannabe Dictator](../../../../glossary/) [5: https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/middle-ground](https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/middle-ground) [6: https://wikiless.org/wiki/Daniel_Dennett](https://wikiless.org/wiki/Daniel_Dennett) [7: https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/strawman](https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/strawman) |