How did we get here? We lost the willingness, if not the ability, to empathize with the pain of the Other. #Election2016
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#Boycottpolitics2016
For weeks, I’ve been debating stepping into the online political fray. I have a lot of opinions, and I’ve been driving around town distilling them into a collection of pithy one-liners that, as a Catholic rather than a Democrat or a Republican, would be certain to offend virtually every single person I know. Conventional wisdom…
Read MoreHow I Do Political Season
For the last four or five months, Trump has been calling me 2-3 times a day from a 646 area code. First I answered it, thinking it was my sister because it was a New York call. Then I ignored it. Then I answered and yelled into the phone, just to see if it might provoke some…
Read MoreMercy (or the lack of it) on the road to the White House
My title today probably evokes an instant reaction. Everyone is well aware of the nosedive in common courtesy—a baseline standard for treating others with mercy—shown by the candidates in this presidential election. And lest you think I’m aiming this only at one side of the Great Political Divide, let me say that I have only watched…
Read MoreExercising My Civic Duty With Kids In Tow
Getting myself in trouble at the voting booth. Wait a minute. My KIDS getting me in trouble at the voting booth.
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Kathleen M. Basi 