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In reply to the discussion: Spin it all you want Ellen... [View all]BlueWI
(1,736 posts)I do, but some of these friendships are not on particularly good terms right now. Getting saddled with a racist grifter as president due to the white majority in this country doesn't do much for cross-partisan friendship.
At the end of the day boundaries have to be crossed, and they will be. But it's certainly possible to build more dialogue and still respect that many of us are working from places of anger and pain and a strong desire for better governance that make relationships across the aisle difficult.
So in addition to yukking it up on TV, was there a conversation about climate action now? Or cuts in military spending to help us dig our way out of the debt left over from the Iraq fiasco? I get that people will socialize, but what we need is good governance, and we're a long way from that. If these friendships lead to true dialogue about public policy, that's great. If it's just an exclusive club of connected people, meh.