![]() Too many of us, those who agree but also who disagree with Trump, have followed his lead in how we Tweet and how we talk to each other. The more cooperation in congress there is, the more the American people benefit, but the less money each party can raise.īut it’s not just the political parties. The more fear and loathing of the other party there is, the more money each party raises. Michael Porter and Katherine Gehl explain why politics is failing America. ![]() But both of our political parties have contributed to the mess we are in. It doesn’t begin and end with one man, unfortunately. Trump’s press conference set off an explosion of “degrading each other without conscience.” When we fight hatred with hatred, when hurl insults at one another without regard for our common humanity, we are risking everything we hold dear. The reaction will allow him to gain more power by sowing hatred in our country. That’s why I am so alarmed when those who find what Trump said abhorrent, as I do, resort to hurling insults and saying that everyone who voted for Trump is evil. Erik Erikson has written on the proneness of people everywhere to perform pseudospeciation, the reduction of alien societies to the status of inferior species, not fully human, who can be degraded without conscience. We seem to be able to be fully comfortable only when… humanity can be labeled as members versus non members, kin versus nonkin, friend versus foe. In all periods of life there is an equally powerful urge to dichotomize, to classify other human beings into two artificially sharpened categories. In his book On Human Nature, EO Wilson explains the danger of dividing ourselves into artificial tribes, democrat and republican. What alarms me most is how many ordinary Americans have reacted to it by hating each other. I’m saddened but not surprised at what Trump said yesterday. Yes! One of the most evil, and oldest political tricks in the book is gain power by sowing fear and hatred in the population at large. But is showing common human decency in the face of his bloviating bullshit even desirable? Do I really have to care about Donald Trump? Since I don’t know him, I can’t care personally. I believe in Radical Candor–challenging others while still caring about them as fellow human beings. Trump’s words are putting my ideals and philosophy to the test. Lee, defender of slavery which defines the very worst of what we did as a nation, with George Washington, who symbolizes our highest ideals? Did the President really defend white supremacists yesterday? How have we elected a man with so little understanding of what is great and what is shameful about our history that he puts Robert E. Like so many people watching Trump’s press conference yesterday, I woke up this morning with a pit in my stomach. And when you do things that way, chances are they will reciprocate and give you a platform.” But you don’t challenge them rudely or violently. And believe me I’ve heard some things so extreme at these rallies it will cut you to the bone. Allow them to air that point of view regardless of how extreme it may be. So if you have an adversary, an opponent with a opposing point of view, give that person a platform. “While you are actively learning about someone else you are passively teaching them about yourself. ![]() Today I turn for inspiration to Daryl Davis, the R&B musician who helped persuade Roger Kelly, Imperial Wizard, to quit the KKK.
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