This book offers a new nonviolent weapon, and tries to sort out when one should run, when one should use violence, and when one should use the new weapon. Many of us have a deep faith that, when all’s said and done, our deep needs for freedom and justice can only be won by violence-that the sole effective rejoinder to oppression is violence, that those who won’t kill to defend their rights don’t deserve them, and certainly won’t obtain them. We have a political dynamic that says "I win only if my opponents lose." This book is about how to depolarize but still get what we need. Political leaders rouse their base instead of speaking effectively to people on the other side, indeed they are chosen for their ability to denigrate. Our polarization is fed by media which play on our fears to gain our attention. Our societies are polarized-in the United States around issues such as abortion, sexuality, race, red-blue, and Christianity-Islam. ![]() Such people may be our spouses or kin, or international enemies. ![]() This book is about how to live well with people who deny our core beliefs, or whose actions we consider immoral, or who have traumatized us.
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