We have to recover our sense that we’re part of a community that’s larger than our political cohort, that we all, despite our disagreements, have shared interests and values. That requires, paradoxically, taking politics more and less seriously. If you’re alarmed by our descent into all-consuming partisanship, by the fact that much of the grassroots energy in both parties is with the closed-minded absolutists on the fringes, what are you doing about it? Are you voting in primary elections? Are you helping choose party leaders for your county, your state? Are you running for leadership
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