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Mini-course in Working Through Hyper-Partisan Stalemates
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Mini-course in Working Through Hyper-Partisan Stalemates

Jim Buie
Apr 23, 2021
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A Trump Supporter Interviews A Biden Supporter
In these times when Democrats and Republicans have trouble talking civilly to each other, I enjoyed listening to a conversation between a Trump supporter and a Biden supporter on the Braver Angels podcast. You can listen here, or on Spotify or Apple Podcasts if you have one of those apps on your phone. (I listened while walking my dogs for an hour…
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'People Make Choices. Choices Make History'
History is made, first of all, by the choices that people make — good choices and bad choices — and the consequences of those choices. Many times, these choices do not even seem like choices at the time, because people tend to operate on “automatic pilot…
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    Around the time that the US House of Representatives impeached President Donald Trump on an almost completely partisan basis, schools over the world were holding elections for class officers. Given the dysfunctional model of self-government offered by the world’s foremost democracy, it should not be surprising that some students were quick to reject the…
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    During an election for class officers during a middle school social studies class in 2020, just as the winners were announced, one student shouted “impeach them!” pranced up to the American flag, ripped it from its placeholder, and stomped on it. If this was just one disruptive student in one middle school, it could be chalked up as an isolated incident. But desecration of the American flag has not been infrequent…
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