Ground Rules

• Like we were taught in elementary school: listen not just so we can talk, but so we can understand. Read others' writings with an intent to learn from a potentially opposing perspective, not an intent to pick out soundbytes and accuse each other using statements taken out of context. (We'll leave that ugly game to campaign strategists.)
  
• Present facts, opinions, or disagreements respectfully. Let's talk to each other assuming we are all reasonable human beings, remembering that we are all Americans trying to move our country in what we feel is the right direction. That we surely have in common. This is a discussion about pragmatics: "What direction is best? How do we get there? Who is the best candidate to move us there?"