Reconciliation
Wonder Cabinet
Wonder Cabinet Productions
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 6 November 2016
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
After one of the ugliest and most divisive presidential races in history -- can America heal? Weeks of vitriolic campaign rhetoric have taken a toll on friends and families. A majority of voters are disgusted with politics and don’t believe the next president will be able to unite the country. So where do we go from here? This hour, a look at reconciliation -- how to recover personal and political harmony. Unfriended Over Politics; How the Founding Feuds Shaped the Nation; Liberal and Conservative Till Death Do Us Part; Esperanza Spalding on Jazz and Reconciliation; Artists and Frenemies; Thomas Kunkel on 'Here Is New York'; Jacqueline Woodson's 'Another Brooklyn'.
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| 0:14.8 | It's a strange feeling to watch friendships fizzle out in real time on Facebook, |
| 0:20.4 | but that's what this election has brought us to. |
| 0:30.7 | I have this old college friend. She's named Lisa Schifrin. We haven't actually seen or spoken to |
| 0:36.9 | each other in years, but we keep track of |
| 0:39.3 | each other on Facebook. Lisa's a sometime GOP speechwriter and a conservative columnist, so besides |
| 0:46.2 | posting about her kids and her dog, she also, as you'd expect, posts a lot about politics. |
| 0:53.4 | Lisa's got strong opinions, and I often disagree with her, |
| 0:57.2 | but I like knowing what she thinks, |
| 1:00.2 | and I like the way she makes me think. |
| 1:03.7 | But something about her Facebook feed started changing a few months ago. |
| 1:08.7 | I noticed a different tone. |
| 1:13.2 | The comments and the replies people were posting seemed sharper and angrier. People talked about being unfriended or needing to block |
| 1:20.5 | old acquaintances. And it got me wondering, how did we get to this point? Your voice sounds exactly the same. |
| 1:27.5 | I know, so does yours. |
| 1:30.1 | It's probably the one thing that doesn't change. |
| 1:32.3 | It takes me straight back. |
| 1:35.0 | So I called Lisa. |
| 1:36.4 | I got her into a studio to talk about this political |
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