

In my own circles, I tend to counter this by employing radical honesty, being extremely data driven, and calling out bullshit extremely aggressively whenever I possibly can. It for sure alienates people sometimes, but the people who are alienated tend to be the people who are also psychopaths, so I genuinely do not care about that “drawback”.
I don’t even know why I even bother paying attention to politics anymore. With a single-digit number of exceptions, pretty much everyone involved in this shitshow is somewhere on a spectrum between utterly insane and completely, unequivocally useless.