Healing the Heart of Democracy - October 14, 2018
As I thought this week about all the issues facing our democracy, this labeling of other people who disagree with us or cross us – or cut us off! – this making people “the other” or “those people” seems at the root of them all.
And more and more it seems those labels come up: Those people who want to pull books from the Scituate school curriculum; those people who rejoiced when Brett Kavanaugh took his seat as a Justice of the Supreme Court; those people who deny climate change even as the unprecedented force of Hurricane Michael flattened the Florida Panhandle and killed 17 people including an 11 year old girl in Georgia. Those people who don’t see the world as I do. Those people whose point of view I have trouble understanding. Do you ever “those people” who don’t agree with you?
And more and more it seems those labels come up: Those people who want to pull books from the Scituate school curriculum; those people who rejoiced when Brett Kavanaugh took his seat as a Justice of the Supreme Court; those people who deny climate change even as the unprecedented force of Hurricane Michael flattened the Florida Panhandle and killed 17 people including an 11 year old girl in Georgia. Those people who don’t see the world as I do. Those people whose point of view I have trouble understanding. Do you ever “those people” who don’t agree with you?
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