It’s easy to criticize, condemn, and portray people who hold different views than us as evil, foolish, or ignorant. Often, these projections are made onto whole groups, e.g., those who hold different political views, without ever knowing the individual and why the individual feels the way he/she feels. There is no dialogue. There is no attempt to understand. There is no effort to dig deeper into either one’s own views or the views of the other. When we lose our fear of dialogue or discovering that we may possible be wrong, divisiveness remains in control.
