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If democracy depends on discourse, how do we have constructive conversations?

Writer and comedian Jordan Klepper offers humorous and helpful tips on how to do it. This is a fun one coming up after the break.

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When Ted asked me to be a part of this democracy event, I was flattered.

When they told me it was a pro-democracy event, I pause. Like really really we still think this is a good idea giving everyone a voice have you talked to everyone

one in ten Americans believe chocolate milk comes from brown cows. We want

those people weighing in on foreign policy. I guess if democracy is hearing from the voice of the people, consider me skeptical of that conversation.

Because I think we're incapable of having it. Any conversation, and not just in America. Globally we're tuning people out.

Frankly, we're bad at talking to other people. Didn't always used to be this way.

In the old days days it came naturally. We would talk to folks,

we would negotiate over food or child care, so your kid didn't get eaten by a bear or run off and invent fire.

But since then it's gotten harder, more difficult.

Screens have placed an impediment between people and thought.

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