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Village Square 101: Of, by and for the people! The result. The hostile tone of our national debate is a predictable result of the worrisome reality that we’ve essentially formed tribes. Inside our respective echo chambers, professional yellers make seven-digit salaries fomenting fury, as they build a fundamental misunderstanding of – and contempt for – people who think differently than we do. Decades of social science research consistently demonstrates that like-minded groups grow more extreme in their views over time, even to the point where as a group they’ll believe things that are provably false. Try as we might to selectively “fact” find in order to support our most earnestly held ideologies, sooner or later the chickens of factual distortion come home to roost. Decisions made using bad facts tend to yield bad results. Learn more at https://tlh.villagesquare.us/2016/09/14/village-square-101-of-by-and-for-the-people/ (The flag image is “Threads of a Nation,” a quilt made by Village Square co-founder Liz Joyner — measures 5′ x 7′ and includes the names of her family members who have served in the military — her grandfather who was a physician in WWII, her father who was a pilot in the Navy, her brother was a Navy SEAL. Her father-in-law served as a navigator in the Air Force and was killed in Vietnam in December of 1975.) #disagreebetter #listenfirst #strongertogether #civility #unitedwestand #democracy #civicengagement #civildiscourse #bridgingdivides #bethechange #thevillagesquare