Engage. Instead of ignoring or even opposing the needs of the other side in a conflict, try to find out what those needs are.

Engage others to respond more effectively to their needs. And grow your reputation as more responsive than most.

CONGRATULATIONS! You're invited to be more need-responsive to each other. Those invited are afforded the opportunity to express a need.

Any discussion around politics that doesn't first address our different priority of inflexible needs quickly runs into errors. The more we address our specific needs, the less we rely on the generalizing of politics. The most important distinction in politics is not between left and right nor between populists and elites, but between overgeneralizing and addressing specific needs. Let's get to the specific needs politics exist to serve. Let's unpack politics, like you've nev