Rats, Back a Candidate

My rationalist group is hosting the event “Unite to Elect Kamala Harris” on August 11. This is a change from Rat business as usual. We are backing a US Presidential candidate, and I think you should too.

This isn’t just about making your candidate the leader of the free world. Backing a candidate is an opportunity to change political rhetoric. It’s about using political engagement to bring more people into the rationalist fold and out of tribalism.

Rationalists excel at critical thinking, evidence-based decision-making, and long-term planning. Our deep thinking about ethical engagement sharpens our intuition in the political space. Backing Kamala Harris has brought more people into our group’s circle than any other effort. By supporting a candidate, we are instigating a conversation. The challenge is to achieve this under rational terms and shift the political conversation from tribalism to evidence-based rationalism.

Launching an event as we have, directly sanctioned by the Democratic National Committee(see event link), while working to reduce tribalism may be setting us up for failure. But I am a rationalist because I try new things, fail, optimize, and fail again until I am less wrong. I hope everyone backs a candidate too so that we are brought into conversations and can move our political reality from an archaic place of heightened emotion and tribal warfare to a reasoned debate of ideas.

Let’s make politics more rational together.