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In American Politics, the First Casualty of Objectification is Compassion

What we do to them, we do to ourselves.

The bedrock of modern American politics is the demonization of the others. Demonizing someone else does not lead to productive discourse, but it does lead to an addictive jolt of endorphins. To Demonize someone is to objectify them. And when we objectify someone we turn them…