Ep. 3 - Six Ways To Improve Your Political Conversations

Tired of political conversations with your friends and loved ones that end in screams and tears? In this special in-betweenisode, Marc gives his recommendations for improving our political conversations and making them productive.

 

Why do our political conversations devolve into shouting fests?  Why do they become contests in one-upmanship?  And, when was the last time you ever heard someone say, “you know what you are right.  I concede.”   You don’t hear that.  But, you should … if the goal of these exchanges is trying to find the truth.  

 

But, unfortunately, our conversations tend not to be about finding answers.    They are about defending your team.  They are about defending your party.  They are about defending your ego.  

 

 

 

The problem is that because of the way we conduct our political conversations: we are not learning anything and we are definitely not having fun, but we are creating a dynamic that I believe gets echoed in our national politics and our governance.  

 

We have a situation where in our private conversations and in our public conversations we have divorced policy almost entirely from politics; policy arguments from political arguments.  

 

And that's a problem for the proper governing of our country.  Why? Because it is the policy that matters.  It is the policy that makes the difference.  It is the policy that does the good … or the bad.

 

So, why is this happening?  And what can we do about it?

 

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