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Alan Alda Wants Us To Have Better Conversations

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Is the Anger in the House of Representatives a Communication Question?

I'm wondering whether some of it actually has to do with what's happening here, which is a lot of Americans might actually not have significant differences of opinion. We're not actually chasms apart in terms of our views, but the partisan rancor that we have makes us feel as if we are polls apart. I talk about in the book some extreme examples of people at each other's throats like the Trans– Trans– Warfarer in World War I. And on Christmas Eve they realized they had common ground when they heard each other singing Christmas carols across no man's land.

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