◼ The tale of two Americas
John Edwards ran his ill-fated presidential campaign around the theme that there are “two Americas,” one that is wealthy and powerful, and the other that is poor and weak.
Events that have occurred since the Tucson shooting tragedy have revealed that there are indeed two Americas, just not the two that Edwards envisioned....
With all of the challenges facing our nation, perhaps the largest is can these two Americas co-exist when they don’t speak the same language, get their information from the same sources, or even have a common frame of reference?
A pretty common comedic gag is for a protagonist to be speaking to someone who speaks a different language, and when he is not understood, he speaks more loudly.
The answer to our national communication problem is not to speak more loudly, or even more clearly. The answer is to communicate using language that the other America understands. read the rest
