A Prejudice We Can’t Ignore
American Politics, Transpartisan Chris Gates and Mark Gerzon American Politics, Transpartisan Chris Gates and Mark Gerzon

A Prejudice We Can’t Ignore

It is good that we are having important conversations about prejudices and implicit biases — racial, religious, sexual, linguistic, even educational. But we are missing one of the most important. If we don’t identify and address this prejudice, all the others are likely to get worse. The group being stereotyped, and sometimes denigrated, goes by a variety of names. Some of them sound neutral: “centrists,” “moderates,” “bi-partisans,” "trans-partisans." Other names are explicitly critical: “cowards,” “frauds,” “complicits," “wishy-washy.”

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Don’t Cancel the Debates – Fix Them.
Bipartisanship, American Politics Chris Gates and Mark Gerzon Bipartisanship, American Politics Chris Gates and Mark Gerzon

Don’t Cancel the Debates – Fix Them.

As a nation, we are all recovering from the disaster that was the first presidential ‘debate.’ Despite his best effort, moderator Chris Wallace was steamrolled by waves of insults, acrimony, and incomprehensible cross-talk. Now Facebook is filled with people calling on future debates to be canceled. We think the answer is to fix the debates, not to cancel them.

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