I challenge those that comment Like Obear to not just message pure one sided information or ad-hominem attacks, Listen to the guy at 35:21 and his counter questions that are from people like Obear1 and how he responds.

The volume is too low to hear anyone!

What Christian Watson said really resonates with me.

Is this jazz hands nonsense a throughout in the entire organization? Is it a requirement to do this in all meetings?

This was so amazing. The interventions made sense and that way that Dr. Doherty effortly dealt with the political roadblocks is an amazing skill. PLEASE POST MORE!!!

Thank you this was so valuable!! I need to view every day for the sake of ...every time I open my mouth!!

I'm not sure that either character or policy should be a deciding factor in this election. There are many policies we can (and should) debate and disagree on and still be a free and democratic society. However, as a minimum, we do need leaders who will respect the rule of law, and will relinquish their position peacefully at the end of their term in office. I would vote against anyone who agreed with all of my policy positions and had "character" as I defined it, if he or she would be unlikely to relinquish power at the end of term. Democracy itself is at stake. We are currently considering rewarding a candidate with reelection who previously tried to block the peaceful transfer of power. Once in power again, how likely would he be to relinquish power peacefully next time? In the book How Democracies Die, there are many examples of leaders who were elected democratically but then gutted their democracy once in power, and remained in power for decades afterwards. This is the potential threat we face with this election.

I detest this idea of allowing a sexual predator in OUR White House…a convicted felon…no.

Dang it, I don't really want either of these people to be president. I don't live in a swing state so I'll just write in someone's name that isn't on the ballot as a protest. Maybe Ron Paul.

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A very nice pre-election wrap up with smart and reasonable people with differing views, but who all want the best for our country. It gives me hope. You'd think that with 60-70% of the potential voting population very unhappy with the choices we've been given this year, the media would be sponsoring more such reasonable discussions that bring us together and unite us. This is not likely to happen- agreement is boring compared to the next breathless “Did you hear what ________ said?” And it doesn’t even matter if it’s true or not. (Really, who has the time to check?) To understand how this disconnect happened, I encourage everyone to read "Amusing Ourselves to Death" by Neil Postman. It's about what we've done to ourselves via TV and technology, and is just as timely today as it was when written.

Deport all. Trump 2024. Bye.

Thank you for shedding light on a topic that usually only provides more smoke.

Genocide, which is what Israel has been accused of, is never acceptable or excusable. There is no "understanding their side"- it is blatantly a land grab and the use of excessive force while flouting international law.

"soul not for sale" facts, anyone professing to be the devil in your life has low self esteem

An informative, encouraging discussion. This is the sort of exchange that builds political friendships, if not alliances. Political friendships 1) provide for frank exchange amidst disagreement and 2) introduce opportunities to find points of consensus, however modest, amidst those disagreements. We can be more and do more in this neighborhood.

Australia used rcv thats why they lost their gun rights

KZbin creates an automatic transcript, which you can find by tapping "more" on the video description

Nothing should have been mandated, you inform individuals the best you can to risks and make official recommendations, then it's up to the people how much risks people are willing to to take, it's a jungle out there and going out in public is a choice and risk you are willing to take, its not someone else's problem because they are not wearing a mask or they didn't have 4 vaccines, this whole psyop fostered division and a collective cult like behavior and people forgot what being an individual and liberty entails.. we saw many liberal default to collectivism which is largely in opposition of freedom,liberty, individualism,free speech and now even pro conflict and war to solve problems, completely illiberal, its seems socialist and fascist to call a spade a spade

The early treatment guidelines coming from health care professionals were slim pickens, they blocked every alternative therapy, basically leaving everyone in their homes in fear waiting to go to the hospital where you were often given highly toxic drugs like remdesiver. this was an epidemic of the really old and unhealthy, not healthy people and kids, but treated it as the same for everyone, t they didn't just lock us down but they locked down any dissenting views and conversations, and that's anything but scientific, there is no excuse for this, of course they will do it again, there has been no official apology for the first one, and the same regimes have even more power today, I'm not hearing of any major lawsuits against these criminal medical cartels?

Francis Collins is a very honest and hardworking scientist who had to make decisions that would be life or death for tens of thousands of people. I think people have been grossly unfair in their criticism of him, especially regarding the vaccines. The vaccines have been highly successful in preventing deaths and hospitalizations. And as he pointed out, about 160,000 Americans died unnecessarily due to their decision not to get the vaccine, and those were just the numbers at the time he was engaging in this debate. Many people have unfortunately spread straight up false information about the vaccines. Almost everyone in America probably knows a number of people who got the vaccine and had good outcomes. I know several hundred such people. None of them died, and only a tiny number of them even had any serious side effects. I did know a good many people who caught the virus and either died or were hospitalized. It was very sad. Most of these were cases that happened before the vaccines were available, so these people, some of them friends or relatives, didn't have the option of getting a vaccine. I wish they had had that opportunity.

If you're reading the comments at the start of this "discussion" the host spends 90% blathering victimhood bs and James respectfully listening. You'll want these 2 hours of your life back. Fast forward several times you won't miss anything of value.

The Black guy is justifying victimhood.

I appreciate this video but difficult to follow because the recording doesn't include any shared screens.

Count me in, I have pitchforks

Wonderful project!

There's no humility in this. Dr. Bill clearly thinks only Democrats are allowed to talk about politics, that Trump voters need to just shut up and take it.

I have family members who believe very differently from me when it comes to politics. Despite being family, we still have very different life experiences that influences the way we believe. I've realized that getting upset with them is a little like getting upset with their life experiences.

Ok...I'm watching this...and all I'm hearing is.. "This is what Blues need to do to make Red's feel good, understand them...etc..etc..." Reds...just exist... Is Braver Angel's just a Conservative Image Rehab outfit...not truly interested in bridging the divide...just normalizing the Trump pathology.

Is there the case that two opposed parties are arguing on a political matter saying or asking for exactly the same outcome from their different perspectives, but their explanations are told in different ways ? So, in many occasions would be a good idea to start a conversation on what you asking, what you expecting, what you desire from your perspective ? Probably the answers would not be opposed but very much complementary. What do you think about ?

I'm hard of hearing are there transcripts available?

yikes, these speakers are not being very respectful in their language about "the gay thing", but then again they are all from a different time, so its hard to gauge. Many people have not yet learned the reformed language we use to have more intellegent conversations about these things. Sometimes, people just dont know, because they've never heard that kind of discussion before, or maybe they are failing to learn the nuances of this language when they hear it.

Nowadays, yes. There was a time when they were needed. Over time, they've become less relevant. Much of what they wanted way, way back in the day has long since been achieved (i.e. 8 hr work day, safe working environment) and what we've seen from them in recent decades is the closest thing to what preachers will do once the devil gets saved. They're more of a nuisance (and at times, job killers) than a necessity. And teachers unions were guilty of hypocrisy during Covid. They wanted virtual learning, but backed the protests and riots that popped up during the summer of woke.

A distinct yet concise - due to time constraints no doubt - explanation of progressivism from CC, it's periodic value to capitalism in many forms, the crumbs from the capitalist table that are celebrated as victories by progressives of all hues. Most of the panellists and floor were unmoved by such ideas so deeply entrenched within capitalist politics as they are. The exception ? The woman in the wheelchair, a fully fledged emotionalising redistributist "leftist" she understood what CC' s words meant,affronting all progressives and their allegiance - consciously or not - to the status quo of capitalism. She was clearly very angry, one could say almost choking on the crumbs from the capitalist table. These people are obstacles to Socialism, in fact that is not their goal at all. Let's hope leftists stop claiming otherwise, they don't even reach the level of historical political reformers,limited as they were themselves,serving capital.

What is this organization? What does Braver Angels do?

But Benjamin, I wanna know what love is. I want you to show me.

So, isn't Braver Angels about bringing different viewpoints together to have a conversation? Where are the different viewpoints from our panelists? I'm glad to hear some audience members asked about some critical questions

The challenge of this debate or discussion is that none of the speakers seemed to agree on the terms. The first rule of debate is to define the terms.

Cutrone zone

Who is that ex DSA lady? Request when or if you feel like it: Could we get a list of speaker names in the description?

10:51 organizer kicks it off

Great organizing work. Shout out to the man in the red blazer setting up the camera and moving chairs and people at the beginning hahah

2024. Needed as much as ever. Perhaps more so.

Does Braver Angels have a separate channel link specifically to purchase Braver Angel's songs?

It was an honor to be there and participate!

Read through the comments. America is not fooled as to who really represents our values. Using a lot of words and having degrees is not the key. Common sense and facts are what propels this conversation

I don't think that one has to move to a proportional vote. Leave the electoral college, and yea that gives a disproportional weight to votes in smaller states, so be it. What needs to change is that you have a winner takes all system for every state. It is this system that gives rise to only a handful of swing-states that actually matter. Voters in California and Texas can just as well stay home, their electoral college votes are so rock solid nobody even cares. Instead, keep the number of electoral college votes per state equal, but distribute them over the parties by ratio of votes (with rounding and shit) and you already have a LOT more fair system, where at least each and every voter in the whole country matters, since not a single state is completely blue or red.

This seems like much-needed content. Any chance of a transcript being made available, or a re-do with improved sound quality?