Regarding the issue of our tribal polarization, I offer the following.

This is from the back cover of The Righteous Mind – Why Good People Are Divided By Politics And Religion, a book by Jonathan Haidt, now a professor at NYU: As America descends deeper into polarization and paralysis, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt has done the seemingly impossible – challenged conventional thinking about morality, politics, and religion in a way that speaks to everyone on the political spectrum. This book offers a way for us to learn to talk to each other despite our differences. The key to talking to each other is to understand where the other is coming from, and his perspective is in the title, The Righteous Mind. He takes the definition of righteous as “arising from an outraged sense of justice, morality, or fair play,” and self-righteous as “convinced of one’s own righteousness, especially in contrast with the actions and beliefs of others….” We know we are right and the other is wrong. The following TED talk introduces you to the subject of the book. Haidt is also the author of The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom. And here is the exciting thing: Jonathan Haidt will be speaking a Lipscomb University October 17^th at 6 p.m. https://www.lipscomb.edu/events/jonathan-haidt-don-r-elliott-distinguished-presidential-lectures