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  • We Need to Stop Labeling People We Disagree With as Stupid or Evil

    David Holahan, The Washington Post|Jan 19, 2017

    I take my next-door neighbor’s political temperature by perusing his bumper stickers. During the reign of Bush II, Rob’s work van sported this exhortation: “Visualize No Liberals.” I didn’t take it literally. I even managed a smile. It was pithy and rather witty. I knew Rob didn’t want me gone, just like I didn’t believe what I heard in Catholic school: that all Protestants were going straight to hell. My mother was an eminently lax Episcopalian. No, it would take more than a bumper sticker to drive a wedge between Rob and me, not to mentio...