Commentary
The good people over at RealClearPolitics ran an interesting article the other day headed, “Let’s Make October ‘Think Outside Your Tribe’ Month.”
In it, Carl M. Cannon and David DesRosiers cite the example of a group called “Braver Angels,” which “encourages Americans of divergent political outlooks to share a meal together,” by way of making their own appeal, based on a suggestion by Andrew Walworth of RealClearPolitics, “to read at least one article published on our site ‘from a writer with whom you disagree.’”
“Each day,” they write, “we’re asking you to make it a discipline to read, listen to, or watch someone speaking from the other side of issues that most concern you. … In the short run, we admit, some of it might make you even angrier. But we submit that if you make it a habit to listen with an open mind you might learn that you share more with your fellow Americans on the other side of the aisle than you knew.”…