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Understanding and Respect Can Help With Disagreements on Politics

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Understanding and Respect Can Help With Disagreements on PoliticsA friendship is a bond that can last for a long time. You might agree on many things such as barn door hardware, movies, and restaurants. What happens when politics enters the picture? Maintaining friendships when you don’t agree on politics can be challenging, but it’s certainly possible with understanding, respect, and effective communication. Here are some strategies to help you navigate these situations:

Respect Differences

Recognize that people have different perspectives shaped by their backgrounds, experiences, and values. Start by respecting your friend’s right to their own political beliefs, even if you strongly disagree. Continue reading →

The GOP Death Wish

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The GOP Death WishBrian C. Joondeph – The GOP, as a political organization, stands for “Grand Old Party.” How does it live up to its name?

It’s hardly grand, instead it is a circular firing squad of squabbling principles and interests, with many GOPers sitting on their high horses arguing about government’s role, fiscal policy, or candidates’ temperaments. As for old, much of the elected GOP is young, although Senate Majority Mitch McConnell is 81 years old.

The current GOP now stands for “gladly out of power” as elected Republicans are doing everything they can to commit political suicide, becoming a permanent minority in national, and in many cases state and local, politics. Continue reading →

Trump Is The Disruptor

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“We make men without chests and expect from them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.” —C.S. Lewis

Our Broken System Needs Disruption, And Trump Is The DisruptorDanny Lemieux – When Donald J. Trump established himself in the president’s office in January 2017, one of the first things he did was hang a portrait of President Andrew Jackson in the Oval Office. That was a signal.

Andrew Jackson was an irascible war hero known for his blunt manner, explosive temper, and inclined to physical violence. He was elected President in 1828, his second attempt, as a reformer who promised to clean out the “deep state” corruption of his day. Continue reading →

Let’s Talk Red Meat instead of Word Salad

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liberals todayChristopher Chantrill – I’ve been wading through a lot of political word salad lately. Here’s conservative Glenn Ellmers kale-ing about Bill Voegeli being a meany-jelly-beanie. It has something to do with the nobility of the Founding against the crudity of Trump.

And here is Matthew Crawford waffling about COVID and liberal individualism and authoritarianism. He’s on about two rival narratives, the Lockean one about us as “rational, self-governing creatures.” And the Hobbesian one about the state that “underwrites a technocratic, progressive form of politics” in saving us from the war of all against all. Continue reading →