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Aired Tuesday, 27 March 2018, 5:00 PM ESTLiving Room Conversations: Can A New “Parlor” Game Heal the Divide?A Conversation With Living Room Conversations Co-Founder Joan Blades“When we connect personally, we don’t take things poisonally.” — Swami BeyondanandaDid you know (From the Living Room Conversations website) … “Living rooms used to be the place where people would gather to socialize and relate with each other. Inviting someone into your home was to treat them as valued and worthy of respect. But before they were called living rooms these rooms were referred to as “parlors” – a term that comes from the French and means place for speaking.”At a time when there’s been precious little civil discourse — let alone civic discourse — can transpartisan “living room conversations” heal the divide?Joan Blades, co-founder of the very partisan MoveOn.org thinks so.In 2010, she and conservative colleagues founded Living Room Conversations to “re-humanize” the other side (whichever side the other side is to you) by s