EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: ● 85% of Americans polled in a diverse set of districts across the nation indicated a preference for finding compromise with political opponents, rather than working harder to overcome them. ● Pro-compromise sentiment held true across the blue-red ideological spectrum. ● Literally no respondents expressed support for the manner in which they see […]
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The most widespread driver of resistance to COVID vaccines in the US was distrust; specifically of political leaders of both parties, the federal government and traditional print & cable news. That is the conclusion reached by a recent e.pluribus.US survey of some of America’s least- and most-vaccinated communities. The survey dug into the reasoning behind […]
Read moreIt is moments like these that remind us why we have each other. Lost in the extensive media coverage about the remarkable unity shown among western allies in standing together to impose collective sanctions on Russia is the development that … all fifty U.S. states themselves collectively joined the sanctions … without having to be […]
Read moreIn our fight to defeat political opponents we’ve failed to accomplish anything, for anyone, for 20 years. The objective should not be to fight; it should be to win.
Read more“Looking over the contemporary political landscape, there appear to be no major or effective movements to counter polarization.” Thomas B. Edsall, writing in The New York Times “Ergo … our raison d’être.” e.pluribus.US
Read moreHere is a funny, “spot-on” illustration of a key challenge we face in trying to have productive national dialogue. It’s honestly pretty humorous in how precisely it captures the problem. Background: one of our current test projects is to help a local community better understand residents’ conflicting views on an issue. One of the steps […]
Read moreThere is an interesting lesson for all of us in “Gulf Coast States Politics” that illustrates both a key way our current polarization developed and the adverse consequences when it happens. Most of us know that for over 100 years the Democrats controlled the South, but now they don’t. Wikipedia: “For nearly a century after […]
Read moreA most fundamental lesson for Americans from the events in Washington, DC this January is that we should not delude ourselves into believing that systems such as our own simply operate on auto-pilot and function to protect society and its structure, irrespective of how members of that society behave. Our democracy was never going to […]
Read moreI got pissed-off yesterday listening to a governor trying to re-cast his costly decisions during the first month of the COVID crisis as heroic leadership. But I caught myself. Because getting pissed-off doesn’t solve anything. Arguably, it’s just a way to viscerally salve angst without actually doing anything. You get angry. The hormones flood. You […]
Read moreHedge fund billionaire Ray Dalio, despairing recently over such acute concerns as wealth inequality and climate change, bemoaned at Summit LA18, “I’m concerned because we’re not working together around our common principles. How do you bring together all of these disparate ways of operating, and operate for the benefit of the whole? I think that […]
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