What Dwight Shares:
- Is this the worst, most contentious election in history?
- What should we do with our emotions during this time?
- Why is he spending his retirement working as a Mayor of a small town?
- How to decide where to donate, where to give money or time
- The historical role of the Supreme Court?
What You Will Hear:
- Historical contention during elections
- Do emotions belong in politics?
- Most people agree more than they disagree, when we get beyond labels
- Orienting to blue within politics
- How to deal with overwhelm when there is so much suffering
- Acknowledging what is actually possible
- What to do when you get into the rabbit hole
- What about homeless people living in Del Mar? What happened with that?
- Does your vote matter?
- Small donations matter because candidates need money but they count the people that contribute
- Democratic National Committee distributes money to the other causes (Senator and Representative candidates
- What happens if the Senate goes 6-3? What do you think about extending the number of seats?
- Supreme Court traditionally was conservative and in favor of corporations and business, against the individual
- The Warren Court changed the court, and we may be going back to pre Warren Court.
- Echo chambers of news sources and listening to news on both sides.
- No common source of information any more
- Learning how to relate beyond labels
- The US is partially socialist
- Should we have hope?
- Progress is sometimes minimizing backsliding
- Are the debates important? Does this format work?
- Trump exemplifying an unhealthy fight response in debate- and how we see authority
- We’ve trained ourselves to expect a game show, not a debate
- Why running a country is not like run a business
