At an economic roundtable a few weeks ago, one of the presenters cited as a concern the growing divide between rich and poor and the aggressive response of many people to news that they don’t like, such as blocking traffic or and other nonviolent protests that have been in fashion lately. People have a right to peaceful assembly, but there is an us vs. them mentality that is becoming the basic narrative for so many news stories these days. It wasn’t always this way. When Obama was running for president the first time, many people in the public arena called him out on the class warfare rhetoric and the way he was pitting Americans against each other. Eight years later, what was...
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