Left and Right

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So I watched the TED Talk “How to have better political conversations” by social psychologist Robb Willer. He begins with the divide between the left and right which has increased over the years, as we’ve likely noticed. And the research confirms this intuition. More and more the left and right don’t like each other, e.g. left-wingers don’t want to go on dates with right-wingers and vice versa. So, what kind of movie is this political divide most like? A disaster movie? Or perhaps a war movie? No, it’s more like a zombie apocalypse movie. People move around in packs and don’t think as individuals, but they think in a mob mentality and try to spread their disease. We probably think we’re the survivors in this movie. However, everyone’s probably thinking the same thing, that they’re the good guys and the others are zombies. What can we do to help with the polarization problem? The political divide is fundamentally a moral divide. The right and left have different values for certain things, e.g. the left value equality and fairness more so than the right. So, when we want to speak with the other side we should appeal to what they value most. For example, if a right-winger wanted to persuade a left-winger they should appeal to the left-winger’s moral values, i.e. connect a policy with the opposing ideology’s moral value. Maybe this isn’t actually a zombie apocalypse movie but a buddy cop movie. At first the cops don’t like each other, but later they become buddies and feel better because of it. However, we’re the ones who need to bring us together. And he ends saying we must give one another empathy and respect. Any books on this feel?