Thanks to Kirstin Falk for pointing out that Cal-Berkley's George Lakoff (a professor of Linguistics there) is leading a similar thought exercise through his Rockridge Institute. Here's a list of their current projects. Of particular relevance to the discussion on the blog of late, check out this article on "Framing".
Interestingly, a group called the Commonweal Institute has begun conducting workshops to actually train people for casual conversations with neighbors and family members. Here's an article from a publication called the CommonDreams.org about this project.
When people start paying for political communications strategy workshops so that they can attend family reunions, it feels to me like the saying that everything is politics has reached a new level. Is the emergence of a viable third party the only remedy for this seemingly downward spiral into partisan bickering?
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