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Bill Doherty – A House UNITED?Restoring Civic Trust in Polarizing TimesAired Tuesday, August 25, 2020 at 2:00 PM PST / 5:00 PM ESTInterview with Author and Family Therapist Bill Doherty, Co-Founder of Braver Angels“We need more visionaries, and fewer divisionaries.”— Swami BeyondanandaHere is an irony supplement to munch on.America is in the midst of the most politically polarizing times since the Civil War … and yet, a 2018 Pew Research Center poll found that nearly 80 percent of Americans in each party believe it’s important for Republicans and Democrats to work together on issues.Huh? How could that be?Are we that schizophrenic … or, is there a deep longing to find our sane and sacred center at the heart and soul of who we are?Our guest this week on Wiki Politiki is family therapist and author Bill Doherty, co-founder of Braver Angels, an organization dedicated to bringing the polarized sides together to find a new angle – where instead of dehumanizing the other side, we re-humanize the other.The problem i