By TOM H. HASTINGS
Contributor 

Imagine a conflict-free world, and take steps towards it

 

Last updated 7/21/2016 at 9:23am



With our daily news running to atrocity after tragedy, Americans are frightened and angry. Some are resonating with hate talk radio hosts like Rush Limbaugh or quintessentially enraged TV bloviators like Bill O’Reilly.

This gets them pushed toward candidates who use the same or similar self-righteous militarized rhetoric. It paints Americans as victims, the system as rigged against us, and the world full of ungrateful evil misfits who unjustly hate and attack us.

This strand of candidates sees its exemplar in Donald Trump, of course, but the angry white man rhetoric runs like a bright r...



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