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To: Dale Baker who wrote (12448)	2/17/2006 12:08:00 PM
From: epicure	Respond to of 541375

I guess that's what I mean when I say we should talk about the things that most of us agree on. Let's face it, there are certain issues that just polarize people- it's like sticking electrodes in the water, and watching the people line up like charged particles. It's easy to do- and we see it all the time. But there ARE things we can talk about without politics. I run a movie thread (it's a very small thread)- and we don't talk politics. I think the people there are of all political persuasions. There are other issues we could deal with. I don't think health care is per se political, nor are some other issues. Perhaps, and this idea just came to me, we could explore the polarity of a topic BEFORE we embark on it. Talking about it's polarizing nature might make us all a little more cognizant of the risks, and perhaps of our own biases. Just an idea.

To: Dale Baker who wrote (12448)	2/17/2006 5:41:40 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 541375

I often think that if people weren't so quickly divided into the Republican-Democratic conservative-liberal football game, where they choose which bleachers to sit in and sing all the fight songs for their team, we might have more folks looking at things from the center and focusing on issues and solutions. Conservatives and liberals (and other groups) often are trying to find solutions, its just that there opinion about practical and just solutions is determined in part by their political/philosophical/ideological views. Partisanship can even be a tool to put solutions in to place. If you can strengthen your "team" it is more likely to be able to implement solutions. OTOH it does often work against solutions because the two teams fight it out without accomplishing anything, and may even come to care about wining the fight more than the actual achievements. I don't think that latter situation is the ubiquitous but it does happen. Tim