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A Change is Gonna Come - How to Have Effective Political Conversations in a Divided America (Hardcover)
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A Change is Gonna Come - How to Have Effective Political Conversations in a Divided America (Hardcover)
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Get your head out of your @*&. Snowflake. Stupid liberal.
Ignorant conservative. There is much discussion today about the
decline in civility in American politics. Couple this phenomenon
with the fracturing and hardening of political attitudes, and one
might wonder how deliberative democracy, much less political
civility, can survive if we can't even talk to people with whom we
disagree. Insults are thrown, feelings are hurt, and family and
friends, at best, decide to avoid political discussions altogether.
At worst, arguments cause social groups to break apart. How can
deliberative democracy survive if we can't even speak to people
with whom we disagree? As this book argues, we need a new way to
discuss politics, one that encourages engagement and room for
dissent. One way to approach this challenge is to consider how
public opinion changes. By and large, public opinion is sticky and
change occurs very slowly; one exception to this is the more recent
and significant change in public opinion toward LGBTQ rights and
marriage equality. The marriage equality movement is considered one
of the great success stories of political advocacy, but why was it
so successful? Brian F. Harrison argues that one of the most
powerful reasons is that a broad range of marriage equality
advocates were willing to engage in contentious and sometimes
uncomfortable discussion about their opinions on the matter. They
started everyday conversations that got people out of their echo
chambers and encouraged them to start listening and thinking. But
the question remains, if simple conversation can work in one arena,
can it work in others? And how and where does one approach such
conversation? Drawing from social psychology, communication
studies, and political science, as well as personal narratives and
examples, A Change is Gonna Come reflects on the last fifteen years
of LGBTQ advocacy to propose practical ways to approach informal
political conversation on a variety of contentious issues. This
book seeks to answer the seemingly simple question: how can we be
politically civil to each other again?
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