Katherine Forrest
Dinnertime Debates Don't Have to End in Bloodshed
Your college sophomore sister thinks she's Michael Moore. Your dad thinks he's Rush Limbaugh. Talking politics at a family gathering is like being caught between two yowling tomcats.
Let's declaw that situation.
In this divisive election season, here's a little help on talking politics, safeguarding relationships and avoiding blood stains on the carpet.
Lesson No. 1: Everything you learned from talk radio and "Fahrenheit 911" is wrong, at least when it comes to the heavy-handed tactics they use.
Talking Politics with People Unlike Ourselves
MENLO PARK, August 21, 2004. The Commonweal Institute, a moderate-to-progressive think tank, is offering a workshop, "Talking Politics with People Unlike Ourselves", at the First Unitarian Universalist Center in San Francisco, on Sunday, August 22. The workshop provides those who want to influence others with new tools for reaching the politically uncommitted, the wavering, and people unlike themselves in other ways, such as style, interests, party affiliation or level of interest in politics.
