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Roxanne Beckford Hoge's avatar

This quote of yours is everything … "talking to people with whom I don’t agree, is one of the main ways I have ever learned anything, or, I believe, that anyone has ever learned anything"

So very true. So very sad that's being erased.

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Dr. K's avatar

Naomi, One of your best, most heartfelt pieces. The America I know was filled with leaning left and leaning right good people who believed in the country despite its inevitable warts. Idealogues on both sides were quickly sidelined. And things continued to get better. Until they didn't.

The cancer has arisen primarily from the left -- a shock to me since that represents my roots. There must be many others like us. Where are we? What do we do? You are a deep thinker -- I cannot imagine that you do not have ideas germinating there somewhere.

In any case, thanks for writing this. It is spot on. We need everyone to read this and to think about what it is telling us.

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