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Jennie Kirby
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“When we participate in politics to solve a problem, we’re participating transactionally. But when we participate to express who we are, that’s a signal that politics has become an identity. And that’s when our relationship to politics, and to each other, changes.”
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Laura Bell
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“As a way of avoiding dissonance and estrangement from valued groups, individuals subconsciously resist factual information that threatens their defining values."
"What we believe about the facts," he writes, "tells us who we are." And the most important psychological imperative most of us have in a given day is protecting our idea of who we are and our relationships with the people we trust and love.
— Sep 28, 2026 05:48PM
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"What we believe about the facts," he writes, "tells us who we are." And the most important psychological imperative most of us have in a given day is protecting our idea of who we are and our relationships with the people we trust and love.
Laura Bell
is on page 43 of 352
Feel like I’m late to the game with this one, but hope I still take something away
— Sep 26, 2026 01:53PM
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