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My post for the Huffington Post<\/a>:<\/p>\n

As I listen and watch, I have a feeling I know where the discussion will go.\u00a0 Most will talk of our modern discourse.\u00a0 Others will focus on the potential role of this or that policy.\u00a0 Gun control will be mentioned as it always is when this happens.\u00a0 But the trend emerging is our discourse.\u00a0 I am the first to admit that things get out of hand today, and sometimes I can get caught up in the over-the-top labels and adjectives.\u00a0 But I don\u2019t think it\u2019s just the discourse.\u00a0 Like many things, that\u2019s probably a symptom, not the disease.\u00a0 I think it\u2019s because social issues and political issues have taken an almost religious turn, and in a way that we think of when we think ill of religion.\u00a0 They are what define us.\u00a0 We hate because of who is on the wrong side.\u00a0 We are divided.\u00a0 Nothing trumps our political divisions.\u00a0 In fact, everything simply becomes fodder to advance them.\u00a0 I\u2019m old enough to remember when people still set aside differences for a common cause.\u00a0\u00a0 Not today.\u00a0 Not 9\/11, not Oklahoma City, not Hurricane Katrina, not anything.\u00a0 Nothing trumps what appears to be the most important thing in our nation \u2013 socio-political issues.\u00a0 It\u2019s how we define who has stars on their bellies and who doesn\u2019t.\u00a0 And perhaps due to other issues, we have no feeling of respect, regard, or patience for those who don\u2019t.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know.\u00a0 But I can\u2019t help but feel we will touch at the surface of the symptoms, but never go deeper as yet one more chance for self reflection comes and goes.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"