Bruce Lear: Voters must stop reacting to red meat appeals and start voting like compromise isn’t a dirty word.
A few times during my career, a problem-solving meeting morphed into a scene from the Walking Dead.
Adrenaline surged and the sides shifted into attack mode. Anger trumped reason. Both sides worked to score a knockout. By the end, no one remembered why we met. Everyone was hungover from anger and worn out from attacks. Nothing was solved.
What happened in those meetings reminds me of what our elections have become. Based on recent polling, it’s not a surprise.
According to a recent NBC News nationwide poll, 80 percent of Democrats and Republicans “believe the political opposition poses a threat that, if not stopped, will destroy America as we know it.”
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