Four years ago, David Blankenhorn sensed a trend: Americans were retreating to their ideological corners, and not listening to one another.
“There are plenty of people who have — chapter and verse — a completely different way of understanding this,” Blankenhorn, 65, said in an interview. “So, you just have to decide, ‘Are they crazy? Are they stupid? Have they taken evil pills? Have they been victimized by some magician?’” But by the early 2000s, Blankenhorn “was personally caught up in the gay marriage debate,” he told Yahoo News, and “ended up being a reasonably prominent spokesperson against gay marriage.” He was a witness in the 2010 court case Hollingsworth v. Perry, which ended with the reversal of Proposition 8, a California law that had banned same-sex marriage. Blankenhorn’s testimony in particular, on behalf of the lawyers arguing to uphold Proposition 8, was widely ridiculed.
“It's built on the premise that we don’t try to change each other's minds about politics,” he said. “But we do try to change our thinking about each other through building relationships and through finding some common ground where it's there.” "Why would you tolerate people who don't believe in democracy, or who believe in oppression of people of different race? … Why would you want to legitimate those views by engaging with them as though they were something that should be engaged with? Why would you want to do that?” he asks rhetorically. “Many, many, many Americans have that point of view.”
Mostashfi, a liberal, helps facilitate a group along with a conservative named Greg Smith, an asphalt technician and former small-town sheriff who said he is now semi-retired. Smith also said he has recently moderated his speech on social media because of a promise he made to Mostashfi to keep things civil. “I said Biden was an illegitimate president,” Smith said, describing a recent Facebook post. Mostashfi commented simply, “Nice!”
Not until conservatives are willing to admit that Trump lied and that the election was completely above board. 99.9 % of stolen elections are done by the incumbent. Until then conservatives can talk to each other and rip themselves apart.
Yeah they can talk to other delusional domestic terrorists they won't talk to anyone who lives in reality
The Right can but the Leftist are foaming at the mouth!
Impossible to talk to Trumpites who don't live in the real world of truth. Where is the starting point for agreement?
Depends. Liberals can talk to conservatives but conservatives can’t have a voice with liberals. It’s the intolerant left.
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