When it comes to politics, we all seek and feed upon news that fits our point of view and then believe it’s the incontrovertible truth. Most of us are likely to argue with anyone who doesn’t agree with us. Politics is about taking sides and creating winners and losers. This can take our consciousness to a low level because it’s contrary to our nature. If we consider how limited our information really is and how we’re actually as biased as people with very different points of view, not only will we feel less righteous, our discourse will be…

More civil.