Woman Holding Politicians Accountable for Nasty Speech, Changing The World, she's a GOP Mormon grandmother of 10, wants to reward civility in politics

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Violence usually emerges when there’s a threat — or a perception of a threat, that your country is being taken away. politicians can lie and make people believe their rights and livelihoods are under threat, leading to violence

One Woman Is Holding Politicians Accountable for Nasty Speech. It’s Changing Politics.

She was a Republican appointee, religious Mormon and grandmother of ten. Then she began to wonder: what if politicians got rewarded for resisting contempt?

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[Calypso Jones]

We can't afford civility in politics right now.

 

[Coyote]

We can't afford civility in politics right now.

Sad that you believe that. I think that is real brain washing.

 

[westwall]

Sad that you believe that. I think that is real brain washing.

Yeah, when your political opponents start destroying your rights to free speech, and demand you take untested vaccines or you can't travel from your home, or work, and then publicly declare you are a terrorist I think civility is no longer an option.

I mean it worked so well for the Germans when the nazis were working their way in to power.