Use this for post-date ordered blog materials to be featured on the CC-MOOS All Recent Posts section of the BI homepage AND on the more limited, Selected Recent Posts section used on the landing pages mobile versions of BI. This is the same list we use on social media for the "Selected Posts" (MBI) option. 

Meeting the Authoritarian Populism Challenge 4: The "Super Rich" and the "Meritocratic Elite"

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How might the super-rich be persuaded to do the right thing? How might the cosmopolitan elite better earn the public's support and trust?

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How might the super-rich be persuaded to do the right thing? How might the cosmopolitan elite better earn the public's support and trust?

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Meeting the Authoritarian Populism Challenge 5: The "Protected Classes" and the "Left Behind"

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More ideas for spanning the left/right divide: the win-win pursuit of social equity, multi-multi-culturalism, and more.

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More ideas for spanning the left/right divide: the win-win pursuit of social equity, multi-multi-culturalism, and more.

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Confront Constructively

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Thi post explains what Constructive Confrontation is and why we need it.

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This post from the Things YOU Can Do To Help Blog answers these questions and gives an overview of the kinds of activities that are required for advocates to confront conflicts more constructively than is the norm, thereby better protecting their own interests than happens with "business-as-usual" confrontation.

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Limit "Us-vs-Them" Language, Thinking and Action 

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If you collaborate with "your enemy" against escalation and "divide & conquerors"--you both can win! 

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If you collaborate with "your enemy" against escalation and "divide & conquerors"--you both can win! 

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Promoting De-Escalation – Part 1: Conciliatory Gestures 

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 Though risky, escalation is riskier! Conciliatory gestures can turn escalation around. 

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 Though risky, escalation is riskier! Conciliatory gestures can turn escalation around. 

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Be Willing to Consider the Possibility That You May Be Wrong

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Most of us are so enmeshed in our own worldviews that we don't consider that we might be wrong. It helps to listen to outsiders and consider that possibility.

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Most of us are so enmeshed in our own worldviews that we don't consider that we might be wrong. It helps to listen to outsiders and consider that possibility.

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Counter Hate and Malevolence - Part 2

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Responding to hate with hate is like pouring gasoline on a fire...you are likely to get burned!

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Responding to hate with hate is like pouring gasoline on a fire...you are likely to get burned!

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