Your Turn -- Your Solutions To Polarization

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Your Turn -- Your Solutions To Polarization

FromThe Bridge with Peter Mansbridge

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Jan 18, 2024

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This week's question was this: If you could name one thing to make us better communicate with each other, what would that change be? Do you have the answer to polarization? You sure offered a lot of possibilities and today we air them out. Plus the Random Ranter in a way you've never heard him before. Literally.

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Jan 18, 2024

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