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Caleb Christen: Creating an Inter-movement Community

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Transforming democracy is an adaptive challenge requiring flexibility, adaptability and intentionality in organizing to enable organizations and millions of Americans to work in unison.

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Obstacles to Implementing the Elements of Successful Democracy

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Fixing democracy is everyone's responsibility: we can't leave it to our leaders or the other side. Everyone can -- and must -- do their part.

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Matt Legge: When Polarization is Beneficial

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Issue polarization can help people come closer to understanding "the truth" about controversial events or issues. How information is presented to parties in conflicts makes a big difference to the quality of the conflict that ensues.

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Essential Elements of Successful Democracies - Part 2

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Boulding's First Law is ""If it exists, it must be possible." All of the essential elements of democracy exist--though sometimes in other contexts. We need to implement them in our governance systems.

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AfP Seminar--Toxic Polarization: What's the Left Got to Do with It?

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The language used to refer to the right is just making things worse, not better. The substance of the left's arguments matters too.

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Essential Elements of Successful Democracies - Part 1

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Successful democracies control destructive escalation, promote respectful communication, use verified facts for decision making, and balance power among constituency groups fairly.

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Jean-Jacques Subrenat: Implementing Democracy

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Attacks on the rule of law in the U.S.A. are having an impact on the political mores of other democracies. The U.S. badly needs to update its own democracy to preserve the safety and prosperity of all around the world.

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Kristin Hansen: Are Bridge-builders Being "Too Nice" to the Right?

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The primary role of bridge-builders in America at this time is to "call in," not to "call out." That this does not make us irrelevant, it makes us essential.

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Matt Legge: Beware the Popular Idea That You Know a Hidden TruthBeware the Popular Idea That You Know a Hidden Truth

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This metaphor leads to a binary assumption: I'm right, they are wrong. We'd be well served dropping that assumption, and listening to others to learn how they might, actually, be right, and we are wrong.

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