False consensus is a misattribution of opinions to more people than hold them - the notion that your stance is correct and those on either side of you are wrong somehow. It is necessarily true that if you thought either side was more right than you, that would be your position. We look to explain why others see the world their way, but not why we see it our way. We must take Abraham Lincoln’s advice seriously: “I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better.”