Palmer, Healing the Heart of Democracy: The Courage to Create a Politics Worthy of the Human Spirit
By: Benjamin Knoll TL;DR: he says that to address the issues facing our democracy requires basically being nice to each other + more deliberative democracy. Focus more on people's orientations toward each other and their "habits of the heart" (in a Tocqueville/sociological sense). INTRODUCTION Looking at politics through the eye of the heart can liberate us from seeing it as a chess game of moves and countermoves or a shell game for seizing power or a blame game of Whac-A-Mol
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