Experienced businessman and speaker with a passion for public policy. My book, American Schism, a #1 Amazon bestseller, explores the issues dividing America.
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I don’t care if you’re #conservative or #liberal, left or right.
As long as you’re willing to have a conversation based on reason and facts, I respect and want to hear what you have to say.
That’s how we reconstruct our political debate.
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Check out my discussion with Nick Thompson on his highly rated podcast where we discuss the importance of Rank Choice Voting and other strategies to heal our democratic republic.
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I am excited to be speaking about the American Schism at an in person event in DC sponsored by the Eisenhower Institute and Gettysburg College through Learning Life on September 17th if interested.
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Wonderful Conversation on Andrew Heaton's The Political Orphanage Podcast on Fighting Unreason With Reason fightingunreasonwithreason.s…
Allowing primal emotions to go vern our political discourse is like trying to resolve a nuanced disagreement with a WWE match.
1/ Something worth thinking about re: Jan 6 hearings:
The 14th Amendment prohibits insurrectionists from serving in federal or state office. It was adopted during reconstruction, when former Confederate officers were trying to get their jobs back.
1/ In the corporate world, renewal is key to progress.
Employees stay in a particular job until they master it, then get promoted and move into something new.
2/ We don’t see that in the public sector, where representatives like Nancy Pelosi have served in Congress for over three decades.
The political cronyism brought on by long-serving legislators is one source of the rancor and division in our country today.
Facebook has demonstrated the dangers of spreading misinformation. But history has shown censorship comes with its own set of issues.
Rather than addressing the content itself, we must ensure people are equipped with the tools to better evaluate the information they consume.
Too many of us live in an echo chamber, consuming only media that aligns with our beliefs.
We must be open enough—inquisitive enough—to say “maybe this isn’t the whole story.”
Americans have abandoned their pursuit of truth.
This lay postmodernism—the belief truth is in the eye of the beholder—causes a logjam of ideas.
We can’t find solutions until all parties agree on objective facts.
1/ The so-called “political debates” I see on social media are so acrimonious, it’s no wonder most rational people don’t chime in.
A big issue with these squabbles is that they lack any sort of historic context.
3/ Some wanted all citizens to be involved in the democratic process, while others called for guardrails to prevent the common man from participatin.
My book, American Schism, outlines several times in our history where we’ve been at odds & managed to find a reasonable solution.