{"id":5569,"date":"2012-09-24T21:35:50","date_gmt":"2012-09-25T01:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goldstocksforex.com\/?p=5569"},"modified":"2012-09-24T21:35:50","modified_gmt":"2012-09-25T01:35:50","slug":"down-with-politics-washingtonexaminer-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepatientinvestor.com\/index.php\/2012\/09\/24\/down-with-politics-washingtonexaminer-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Down with politics &#124; WashingtonExaminer.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Gene Healy<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Politics makes us worse because &#8220;politics is the mindkiller,&#8221; as intelligence theorist Eliezer Yudkowsky puts it&#8230;&#8230;. we indulge our tribal hard-wiring by picking a political &#8220;team&#8221; and denouncing the &#8220;enemy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But our atavistic Red\/Blue tribalism plays to the interests of &#8220;individual politicians in getting you to identify with them instead of judging them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;&#8230;..We&#8217;ll get more of the same, Yudkowsky argues, until &#8220;Republifans and Demofans &#8230; 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