Wiscasset students spent a day on the road visiting the Passamaquoddys earlier this month and last Friday a “sizable crowd” attended a panel discussion on being Muslim in America.
We see these as encouraging signs.
We are not big fans of the slogan-heavy sound bites that dominate much of our national conversation today.
We like facts.
We like reason.
In fact, we could argue that much of the problem facing us as a country these days stems from the fact most of our political discourse goes about being as deep as a cat’s saucer.
It takes effort to get to learn something, to try to understand something, and we are encouraged to see people, in little groups, making the effort. It’s a start.
In some cases, culturally we may ultimately end up agreeing to disagree, maybe even to the point of armed conflict, but we should know and understand the whys and wheretos of what we are doing.
