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"Introduce a different force: love, empathy, compassion and interbeing"
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Introduce a different force: love, empathy, compassion and interbeing
It is important to introduce a different kind of force to animate the structures that might appear after the old ones crumble.
Politically, empathy is akin to solidarity, born of the understanding that we are all in this together. In what together? What would it take for it to embody love, compassion, and interbeing? Can we take these ideas into the political world and create an eye of compassion inside the political hate vortex?
Politically, empathy is akin to solidarity, born of the understanding that we are all in this together. In what together? What would it take for it to embody love, compassion, and interbeing? Can we take these ideas into the political world and create an eye of compassion inside the political hate vortex?
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What is your Personal Experience?
How does it make you feel? How do your experiences, privileges, and personal interests affect your understanding of it?
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▶ Say something good about what you disagree with, even if there are flaws.
▶ Find causes, not symptoms. Ask what lies at the root.
▶ Have respect for people with different views, insights, and priorities!
"Liberal elites failed to understand the crisis in middle America"
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Liberal elites failed to understand the crisis in middle America
The press have no credibility. The 'Deplorables' resented being called racist, misogynist, etc. The elite saw Trump supporters as the product of stupidity at best, or racism at worst. People voted for Trump because of real concerns, especially economics, but also family life to life expectancy to the drugs that have infected communities. The loss of millions and millions of jobs have fueled anger----racial, religious, sexual, political, etc. This country has abandoned our working class.
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Relax, focus. Take a step back and look at the Perspective from all sides. Now, zero in at the center!
What is the Bias?
What assumptions does it make? Whose interests does it serve?
What is your Personal Experience?
How does it make you feel? How do your experiences, privileges, and personal interests affect your understanding of it?
What assumptions does it make? Whose interests does it serve?
What is your Personal Experience?
How does it make you feel? How do your experiences, privileges, and personal interests affect your understanding of it?
Now, enter the heart
▶ Say something good about what you disagree with, even if there are flaws.
▶ Find causes, not symptoms. Ask what lies at the root.
▶ Have respect for people with different views, insights, and priorities!
"The era of American exceptionalism is over. American is a failed state."
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The era of American exceptionalism is over. American is a failed state.
"This has been a night of terrible revelations, and I don’t think it’s self-indulgent to feel quite a lot of despair." Paul Krugman
"America has long been able to portray itself as leading the world not just in power but in democracy, in justice, in the expansion of rights…We will be just people among people from now on, just a nation among nations, with no claim to moral superiority over those who passed this way before."
"America has long been able to portray itself as leading the world not just in power but in democracy, in justice, in the expansion of rights…We will be just people among people from now on, just a nation among nations, with no claim to moral superiority over those who passed this way before."
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How to Explore a Perspective
Relax, focus. Take a step back and look at the Perspective from all sides. Now, zero in at the center!
What is the Bias?
What assumptions does it make? Whose interests does it serve?
What is your Personal Experience?
How does it make you feel? How do your experiences, privileges, and personal interests affect your understanding of it?
What assumptions does it make? Whose interests does it serve?
What is your Personal Experience?
How does it make you feel? How do your experiences, privileges, and personal interests affect your understanding of it?
Now, enter the heart
▶ Say something good about what you disagree with, even if there are flaws.
▶ Find causes, not symptoms. Ask what lies at the root.
▶ Have respect for people with different views, insights, and priorities!
"This will blow everything up, but it’s the right thing to do"
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Relax, focus. Take a step back and look at the Perspective from all sides. Now, zero in at the center!
What is the Bias?
What assumptions does it make? Whose interests does it serve?
What is your Personal Experience?
How does it make you feel? How do your experiences, privileges, and personal interests affect your understanding of it?
What assumptions does it make? Whose interests does it serve?
What is your Personal Experience?
How does it make you feel? How do your experiences, privileges, and personal interests affect your understanding of it?
Now, enter the heart
▶ Say something good about what you disagree with, even if there are flaws.
▶ Find causes, not symptoms. Ask what lies at the root.
▶ Have respect for people with different views, insights, and priorities!
"Trump is a bigot, a demagogue, a sexist, a racist, a xenophobe & a bully"
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Trump is a bigot, a demagogue, a sexist, a racist, a xenophobe & a bully
Trump is the most unprepared president-elect in history. He has shown himself to be temperamentally unfit to lead a diverse nation of 320 million people. We know he has threatened to prosecute and jail his political opponents, and he has said he would curtail the freedom of the press. We know he lies without compunction.
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Relax, focus. Take a step back and look at the Perspective from all sides. Now, zero in at the center!
What is the Bias?
What assumptions does it make? Whose interests does it serve?
What is your Personal Experience?
How does it make you feel? How do your experiences, privileges, and personal interests affect your understanding of it?
What assumptions does it make? Whose interests does it serve?
What is your Personal Experience?
How does it make you feel? How do your experiences, privileges, and personal interests affect your understanding of it?
Now, enter the heart
▶ Say something good about what you disagree with, even if there are flaws.
▶ Find causes, not symptoms. Ask what lies at the root.
▶ Have respect for people with different views, insights, and priorities!
"We need to reform or replace the Democratic party"
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We need to reform or replace the Democratic party
The Democratic party needs to be either decisively wrested from pro-corporate neoliberals, or it needs to be abandoned. A hell of a lot of people are in pain. Under neoliberal policies of deregulation, privatization, austerity and corporate trade, their living standards have declined precipitously. They have lost jobs. They have lost pensions. They have lost much of the safety net that used to make these losses less frightening. They see a future for their kids even worse than their precarious present.
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Relax, focus. Take a step back and look at the Perspective from all sides. Now, zero in at the center!
What is the Bias?
What assumptions does it make? Whose interests does it serve?
What is your Personal Experience?
How does it make you feel? How do your experiences, privileges, and personal interests affect your understanding of it?
What assumptions does it make? Whose interests does it serve?
What is your Personal Experience?
How does it make you feel? How do your experiences, privileges, and personal interests affect your understanding of it?
Now, enter the heart
▶ Say something good about what you disagree with, even if there are flaws.
▶ Find causes, not symptoms. Ask what lies at the root.
▶ Have respect for people with different views, insights, and priorities!
"Leave the country! The experiment is over."
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Leave the country! The experiment is over.
It is impossible to ever find our way back. The experiment is over, there will be a lot of peer review, but it won't matter. We are so far from our intended path that it is impossible to ever find our way back. The United States will cease to exist in its present form in less than 50 years.
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How to Explore a Perspective
Relax, focus. Take a step back and look at the Perspective from all sides. Now, zero in at the center!
What is the Bias?
What assumptions does it make? Whose interests does it serve?
What is your Personal Experience?
How does it make you feel? How do your experiences, privileges, and personal interests affect your understanding of it?
What assumptions does it make? Whose interests does it serve?
What is your Personal Experience?
How does it make you feel? How do your experiences, privileges, and personal interests affect your understanding of it?
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▶ Say something good about what you disagree with, even if there are flaws.
▶ Find causes, not symptoms. Ask what lies at the root.
▶ Have respect for people with different views, insights, and priorities!
"Create a Thoughtfulness Party"
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Create a Thoughtfulness Party
Politics is always going to be divisive. We need a new Humanity Party or People's Party or Thoughtfulness Party to begin to engage the population in an entirely new way.
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How to Explore a Perspective
Relax, focus. Take a step back and look at the Perspective from all sides. Now, zero in at the center!
What is the Bias?
What assumptions does it make? Whose interests does it serve?
What is your Personal Experience?
How does it make you feel? How do your experiences, privileges, and personal interests affect your understanding of it?
What assumptions does it make? Whose interests does it serve?
What is your Personal Experience?
How does it make you feel? How do your experiences, privileges, and personal interests affect your understanding of it?
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▶ Say something good about what you disagree with, even if there are flaws.
▶ Find causes, not symptoms. Ask what lies at the root.
▶ Have respect for people with different views, insights, and priorities!
"Democracy actually works. Against the establishment, the people spoke."
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Democracy actually works. Against the establishment, the people spoke.
The people that Clinton derided as a “basket of deplorables” have spoken. What you have is a defeat of elitism. Nearly all major newspaper, polls and entertainers lined up against Trump. Ad spending and endorsements were nearly all in support of Clinton. This is a crisis of confidence for America’s ruling elite.
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How to Explore a Perspective
Relax, focus. Take a step back and look at the Perspective from all sides. Now, zero in at the center!
What is the Bias?
What assumptions does it make? Whose interests does it serve?
What is your Personal Experience?
How does it make you feel? How do your experiences, privileges, and personal interests affect your understanding of it?
What assumptions does it make? Whose interests does it serve?
What is your Personal Experience?
How does it make you feel? How do your experiences, privileges, and personal interests affect your understanding of it?
Now, enter the heart
▶ Say something good about what you disagree with, even if there are flaws.
▶ Find causes, not symptoms. Ask what lies at the root.
▶ Have respect for people with different views, insights, and priorities!
"The election represents the decline of American democracy"
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The election represents the decline of American democracy
The probably most divisive and scandalous election in American history has eroded voters' faith in the two-party system, as many voters called it a game of money, power, and influence.
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How to Explore a Perspective
Relax, focus. Take a step back and look at the Perspective from all sides. Now, zero in at the center!
What is the Bias?
What assumptions does it make? Whose interests does it serve?
What is your Personal Experience?
How does it make you feel? How do your experiences, privileges, and personal interests affect your understanding of it?
What assumptions does it make? Whose interests does it serve?
What is your Personal Experience?
How does it make you feel? How do your experiences, privileges, and personal interests affect your understanding of it?
Now, enter the heart
▶ Say something good about what you disagree with, even if there are flaws.
▶ Find causes, not symptoms. Ask what lies at the root.
▶ Have respect for people with different views, insights, and priorities!