Entangled States

R.I. House committee advances assault weapons ban in historic 12-6 vote • Rhode Island Current: “Our advocates and partners have worked tirelessly for more than a decade in the name of public safety and we are thrilled to have made it this far in the legislative process,” Melissa Carden, executive director of the Rhode Island Coalition Against Gun Violence, said in a statement. Tony Morettini, legislative chapter lead for Moms Demand Action, said he’s hopeful […]

I saw this quote from Fleming Rutledge, and I’ve been thinking about it this week post-election. I’m mostly annoyed by people who are explaining the events of last week by banging the drum of their particular worldview. But what they’re doing, whether they know it or not, is laying the groundwork for how we understand political sphere going forward. Preachers, professors and pundits all sort of get this instinctively. It’s striking though to see it […]

Beloved in Christ; I am always suspicious of anyone who says that they know why things happen or what things mean immediately after a major event takes place. We are now only a few days past our most recent national and state election, an election that surprised and concerned some of us here in Rhode Island and which reassured others of us in this state. That dichotomy has been the case for many national elections […]

Given the national news, this seems apt.

More and more reporters talk about “fans” of a candidate. That’s part of what is making it impossible to talk to each other:

Polarization may phase out of American politics as younger generations shift into power: The sharp increase in political polarization in America over the past 50 years has been driven in part by how different generations think about politics. But the rise of younger generations to political power may actually erase the deep social divisions associated with polarization. That’s one of the strong possibilities for the future suggested by the diverse array of findings of our […]