And so I believe that there is a respect owed to someone having contrastive Beliefs. My concern though, is that in this moment where We are in this competitive authoritarianism, where our beliefs are being weaponized and the language that we use is being leveraged against the underlying experiment of democracy. we are seeing these fractures that are hardening. And there used to be a time where we thought we could sort of knit them back together, but these chasms are getting wider. (08:10–08:24)
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Asserts that current political dynamics involve weaponizing beliefs and language against democracy.
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