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The Complex Factors That Make Intractable Conflict So Difficult
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Challenges Posed by Bad-Faith Actors Who Who Are Trying to Profit by Undermining Collaboration and Power-with Democracy
Not everyone is making a good-faith effort to strengthen democracy and handle conflict constructively. There are many types of bad-faith actors who, for selfish reasons, deliberately try to inflame and exploit conflict.
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Democratic Subversion - Part 1
Part 1 of 2 newsletters looking at an old, but eerily accurate, way of looking at the chain of political events that have done so much to undermine democratic societies in recent decades.
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Democratic Subversion - Part 2
Part 2 of 2 newsletters looking at an old, but eerily accurate, way of looking at the chain of political events that have done so much to undermine democratic societies in recent decades.
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Bad-Faith Actors and the Red/Blue/Gold Divide
Successfully dealing with intractable conflict requires distinguishing between good-faith and bad-faith actors (and between intentional and reluctant bad-faith actors) and then dealing with each group in a different way.
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The Great Reframing: What It Is and Why It Is Essential
If we want to get out of the trouble we are in as a society, we need to realize that the "enemy" is not "the others." It is the destructive way in which we deal with "the others."
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The 2020 US Election -- What Happens When We Have an Election That Both Sides Absolutely Positively Can't Afford to Lose?
Articles written during the 2020 election highlighting the ways in which hyperpolarization was threatening US democracy. As the 2022 election approaches, virtually all of these dynamics are still operating.
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Types of Bad-Faith Actors
In order to protect democracy from those who deliberately seek to undermine it, we need a sophisticated understanding of motivations of these individuals and the tactics they use.
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Strategies and Tactics Used by Bad-Faith Actors
Bad-faith actors use many nefarious strategies including information warfare, corruption, threats, and even violence to impose their demands on anyone who resists them.
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Expose and Delegitimize "Bad-Faith Actors"
Selfishly motivated bad-faith actors have developed a wide range of deceptive and sophisticated strategies for inflaming conflict and then profiting from the resulting conflagration. They can be weakened, however, by exposure and delegitimization.
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Defending Democracy from the Bad-Faith Actors Who Seek to Undermine It
Unfortunately, the ability to successfully navigate contemporary conflict also requires a sophisticated array of skills to defend those efforts from unscrupulous attacks by bad-faith actors on those who are making a good-faith effort to build a democracy that works for all.