Douglas_Knight comments on Are you a Democrat singletonian, or a Republican singletonian? - Less Wrong

-12 Post author: PhilGoetz 01 October 2009 09:35PM

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Comment author: Douglas_Knight 02 October 2009 12:18:48AM 0 points [-]

based on the predominant emotional needs that people express in their choice of political party today

Can you really translate emotional needs into future policy? Doesn't it depend on how the policy is framed? In particular, if both sides can produce reasons for a policy (as you say here), then bipartisan support does not seem terribly more likely to me than one side's rhetoric framing the issue and the other side's reason vanishing.

Comment author: PhilGoetz 08 October 2009 04:30:29AM 0 points [-]

Can you really translate emotional needs into future policy?

If you don't think you can do that, I advise you not to go into politics.