I keep hearing, “Americans need to stop treating each other as the enemy and return to reasoned, civil dialog.”
And I keep wondering, “How is it possible to have reasoned, civil dialog with an election denier?”
Look, I totally understand the frustration of feeling like an election has been stolen, and the panic of thinking the country is out of control. It’s wrongheaded, but I can empathize. I have relatives in that camp.
What I can’t empathize with is ignorance of court loss after court loss after court loss on those claims. How are we to have reasoned, civil dialog about things like this? How are we to reason with the belief that all news but Fox News is fake news? How are we to reason with politicians who continue to politicize a pandemic? (I’m looking at you, DeSantis.)
“Stop thinking of each other as the enemy” is a noble goal. It just can’t work one-sided. Ask Ukraine.