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Massively Parallel Democracy Building Goals
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Massively Parallel Peacebuilding vs. Massively Parallel Partisanship
As we work to build a massively parallel peacebuilding movement to limit hyper-polarization and protect democracy, we must be aware of other, more partisan massively parallel movements that are deepening our divisions.
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Massively Parallel Partisanship Revisited
Massively parallel social movements can strengthen democracy or tear it apart, and the dividers are currently much more visible (and successful) than the uniters. With effort, though, that can change!
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Daniel Stid: Competitive Authoritarianism Comes for Civil Society
An exploration of the critical role that civil society needs to play in the defending US democracy and thoughts about how civil society might overcome the challenges that are making it difficult for it to play that role.
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Daniel Stid: Civil Society and the Liberal Democratic Project
Defending civil society against attacks is not enough. We also need to cultivate the attributes that will make civil society more defensible – and worth defending.
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Information Warfare
Information warfare is getting increasingly common as the Internet and social media make it so easy and inexpensive to drown users in false information.
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Us-vs-Them Framing, Enemy Images, and Into-the-Sea Framing
One common contributor to intractability is the tendency to simplify complex conflicts into simple us-versus-them, good side versus bad side narratives. These go so far as "into-the-sea" framing where adversaries tried to entirely get rid of the other side.
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Disenfranchising Moderates, Denouncing Compromise
Bad-faith actors insist that their views are the only correct views and opposing views are completely wrong. So they denounce moderates who can see value in both sides as sell-outs or traitors, and denounce compromise as unacceptable submission.