EP104: The 2020 Election, Democracy, Supreme Court and What Our Part Is with Dwight Worden

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What Dwight Shares:

• Is this the worst, most contentious election in history?
• What should we do with our emotions during this time?
• Why is he spending his retirement working as a Mayor of a small town?
• How to decide where to donate, where to give money or time
• The historical role of the Supreme Court?

What You Will Hear:

• Historical contention during elections
• Do emotions belong in politics?
• Most people agree more than they disagree, when we get beyond labels
• Orienting to blue within politics
• How to deal with overwhelm when there is so much suffering
• Acknowledging what is actually possible
• What to do when you get into the rabbit hole
• What about homeless people living in Del Mar? What happened with that?
• Does your vote matter?
• Small donations matter because candidates need money but they count the people that contribute
• Democratic National Committee distributes money to the other causes (Senator and Representative candidates
• What happens if the Senate goes 6-3? What do you think about extending the number of seats?
• Supreme Court traditionally was conservative and in favor of corporations and business, against the individual
• The Warren Court changed the court, and we may be going back to pre Warren Court.
• Echo chambers of news sources and listening to news on both sides.
• No common source of information any more
• Learning how to relate beyond labels
• The US is partially socialist
• Should we have hope?
• Progress is sometimes minimizing backsliding
• Are the debates important? Does this format work?
• Trump exemplifying an unhealthy fight response in debate- and how we see authority
• We’ve trained ourselves to expect a game show, not a debate
• Why running a country is not like run a business