What if Americans could listen to each other and let go of judgments and the framework of “I’m right and you’re wrong.”?
Maybe if our conversations about violence were less violent, maybe if everyone has a voice and deserves to be listened to, people will express themselves more with their words and less with their fists and guns and bombs?
Impossible Things Before Breakfast! 
Yes, a few years back I went to a professor’s lecture and workshop where he taught the art of deliberation verses debate. Deliberation is the art of looking for a common ground between two parties and building communication and problem solving from that standpoint.
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