Jacob Hibbard: “We must reject our ‘Schmittian’ turn, give in to the ‘better angels of our nature’ and see the angels in those around us. That is the way back.”
It begins with abandoning the friend-enemy distinction. We must stop “othering” each other and instead see fellow Americans. If we do, the results will be extraordinary.
When I was in my undergraduate at BYU, I was fairly new to politics and was almost religious in my zeal for these values. I wanted others to share them and to see them advanced. As a result, I was very aggressive in my rhetoric, especially about elected officials within my own party that I felt were not living up to these values. I had no qualms about deploying rhetorical weapons of mass destruction. And I was good at it.In a special election, Rep.
In a moment, I stopped seeing a RINO and I started seeing a person. I realized that Rep. Curtis was a person, with a family, with feelings, who was trying to do what he thought was best and felt the same pressures, pains and disappointments that I did. That moment changed my life. I realized that I could not continue treating Rep. Curtis as an enemy. He was a person. And I needed to change.
I am not going to pretend that I am perfect at this. I still struggle with the propensity to not treat others, even family members, with the respect they deserve when we disagree politically. But I try. And despite my many failings to perfectly live up to this, my life has been greatly blessed by trying. I have developed wonderful relationships with people who are very different from me politically. I have more empathy.
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