I tend to avoid reading people I know I will agree with because I don’t want to risk adopting a flawed argument that I agree with before I notice the flaw.

I prefer to read people I expect to disagree with, find a sentence that I agree with, and use it while building my own argument. To me, this is like finding a chink in their armor.

Other than that, yeah, a lot of stuff lately does a great job of hiding what they are thinking, while making it seem that the reader should agree with the article. I think they do it by leaving out the details of meaning. Everyone can support the call for a “better” economy, as long as we don’t know what the caller has in mind to achieve that improvement.