A Change is Gonna Come —— How to Have Effective Political Conversations in a Divided America

----- 一个改变即将到来：如何在分裂的美国进行有效的政治对话

ISBN: 9780190939557 出版年：2020 页码：209 Harrison, Brian F Oxford University Press

As kids we were told to avoid talking about politics in polite company. However, the conventional wisdom no longer applies: we need to find a way to talk to each other about American politics, even with those (and especially those) with whom we disagree. While we've hashed and re-hashed bitter political disagreements, we have paid less attention to concrete, actionable ways to better understand each other. While it's true that, on average, public opinion doesn't change quickly, it does change: a prime example is how people think and feel about LGBTQ rights, which saw a meteoric change over the last few decades. Drawing on diverse areas of social research, this book identifies and explains where conversations fail and how we can start to dig out of our opinion silos to make reasonable changes in everyday, interpersonal political conversations.