When we can’t refer to America as a democracy we have already cave to those who don’t want to respect the outcomes of free and fair democratic elections because they don’t llke the outcomes. I applaud these groups for trying to bring people into one on one sotuations and I hiope rhey aucceed but I don’t think they will. The basic premise that both sides are equally at fault for the division in the country is just not true. Democrats have lost elections or even worse, watched the Supreme division is whether division about rheCourt hand a Presidential election over to the republican who did not win and then still did not violently invade the U.S. Capital and try to kill the Vice President so he couldn’t certify the election. This issue is so central to the division in the nation that it makes the real
Hi Danni -- thanks for responding. Autocracy is on the ballot and this election, if poll numbers are accurate, will be extremely close. The challenges are real. Check out Daniel Lubetzky's TED talk, in which he says that Americans with extremist views are those who would destroy rather than build but then adds: "By blaming the other for all of society's ills, we abdicate our own responsibility. We have to help fix the problem and accept the opportunity to work together on actual solutions. ... We're only going to be successful if we all recognize the responsibility to transcend hyper-partisan affiliations and start supporting builders and the reforms needed to help strengthen the people's voices regardless of partisan affiliation." Most of us are uniters, he adds -- not dividers. "In these times, one of the hardest things for builders to do is to stay in the game. But we must, in a distributed and not centralized model, so that everyone is empowered to bring change to their own communities." Thoughts?
These methods mentioned in this story have worked and keep working with the groups engaged. It's about listening, exhibiting authentic curiosity about why people feel the way they do, and also acknowledging that we've all, more than likely, have more in common with each other than that which divides us. It's hopeful, but it's also real. Like any relationship or kind of citizenship we share, our relationships need to be nourished and our differences understood rather than neglected or abandoned in order for communities and family relationships to grow and succeed.
When we can’t refer to America as a democracy we have already cave to those who don’t want to respect the outcomes of free and fair democratic elections because they don’t llke the outcomes. I applaud these groups for trying to bring people into one on one sotuations and I hiope rhey aucceed but I don’t think they will. The basic premise that both sides are equally at fault for the division in the country is just not true. Democrats have lost elections or even worse, watched the Supreme division is whether division about rheCourt hand a Presidential election over to the republican who did not win and then still did not violently invade the U.S. Capital and try to kill the Vice President so he couldn’t certify the election. This issue is so central to the division in the nation that it makes the real
Hi Danni -- thanks for responding. Autocracy is on the ballot and this election, if poll numbers are accurate, will be extremely close. The challenges are real. Check out Daniel Lubetzky's TED talk, in which he says that Americans with extremist views are those who would destroy rather than build but then adds: "By blaming the other for all of society's ills, we abdicate our own responsibility. We have to help fix the problem and accept the opportunity to work together on actual solutions. ... We're only going to be successful if we all recognize the responsibility to transcend hyper-partisan affiliations and start supporting builders and the reforms needed to help strengthen the people's voices regardless of partisan affiliation." Most of us are uniters, he adds -- not dividers. "In these times, one of the hardest things for builders to do is to stay in the game. But we must, in a distributed and not centralized model, so that everyone is empowered to bring change to their own communities." Thoughts?
These methods mentioned in this story have worked and keep working with the groups engaged. It's about listening, exhibiting authentic curiosity about why people feel the way they do, and also acknowledging that we've all, more than likely, have more in common with each other than that which divides us. It's hopeful, but it's also real. Like any relationship or kind of citizenship we share, our relationships need to be nourished and our differences understood rather than neglected or abandoned in order for communities and family relationships to grow and succeed.