Floyd Brown Loc: Milwaukee WI

Something to work with.
1. Our worst problem is that our citizens are very divided on what is happening. How do we address that?

Okay 1 at a time lets go through Tasine's list.

For a start I would say we start with how it should be viewed from the middle because that is where I feel most of us in our personal life's are.

I say we are not out to changed peoples values but to ease our different views.

Lets not open debate on to many at once. Lets take our time on one at a time.

Searching Loc: Rural Southwest VA

Bless you for this topic!! Maybe, my two cents for what it's worth, we could start with taking "labels" out of "descriptive" vocabulary. The media, regardless of their slant, first brought them to consciousness, gave them voice, and not flattering ones at that. I haven't been here very long, but was struck right off the bat, both literally and figuratively, by the venom that accompanied certain "concepts", and was rather sternly informed that my concepts of certain words, like "liberal" were so beyond wrong. I can almost laugh now, well I CAN laugh, at how naïve I was. Labels are verbal hand grenades. I quit using ANY. They need to go away. They are a form of easy negative shorthand inserted into sentences that immediately form a brick wall that prevents someone actually being able to hear what the other is saying. Again, I think this is a topic whose time has come. Thank you.