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Democrats talk about programs like Social Security or Medicare, but it's not clear to most voters what Democrats' core moral values are.

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Jonathan Haidt
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: October 19
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While it is useful to rebut charges and get your arguments out in circulation, you have to understand that arguments and evidence have little impact on people as long as their feelings tilt them against you.
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If I have a mission in life, it is to convince people that everyone is morally motivated - everyone except for psychopaths.
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Individuals who could not form cooperative alliances, on average, died sooner and left fewer children. And so we are the descendants of the successful cooperators.
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If you think half of America votes badly because they are stupid or religious, you are trapped in a matrix ... Take the red pill, learn some moral psychology and step outside the moral matrix.
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It only takes twenty generations of selective breeding to create large differences or appearance and behavior in other mammals.
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The social intuitionist model offers an explanation of why moral and political arguments are so frustrating: because moral reasons are the tail wagged by the intuitive dog. A dog’s tail wags to communicate. You can’t make a dog happy by forcibly wagging its tail. And you can’t change people’s minds by utterly refuting their arguments.
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Liberals are my friends, my colleagues, my social world.
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Sports is to war as pornography is to sex. We get to exercise some ancient, ancient drives.
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The world doesn't usually affect us directly. It's what we do with it. It's the filters that we put on it. That's the foundation of certainly most pop-psychology, and of a lot of psychotherapy, cognitive therapy. So that, I think, is the greatest truth.
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