S2E14 - An Assassination Attempt and Turning Down the Temp

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As we were preparing for our next podcast, former President Donald Trump survived an assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania. One bullet grazed his right ear and bullets struck three people in the audience. One died and two others were seriously wounded. In this episode, Lamar and Tom talk about the escalation of violent rhetoric in the 2024 U.S. Presidential campaign and the need to turn down the temperature by choosing our words and language more carefully. They discuss four suggestions for making this campaign more civil in the wake of the Trump assassination attempt, offered by Luke Hallam in his Persuasion article titled How to Walk Back from the Brink - https://www.persuasion.community/p/how-to-walk-back-from-the-brink?r=5pobe&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email&triedRedirect=true

Learn more: 

The following links are to articles, podcasts, and videos related to today’s topic.

• What DO we Want from Our Leaders? By Tom Klaus, in Change It Up! From Tenacious Change - https://open.substack.com/pub/tenaciouschange/p/what-do-we-want-in-our-leaders?r=5pobe&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web 

• Our Conversation with Seth Kaplan from early in Season 2 - https://youtu.be/inuF2UYS4oY?si=mw6jLeNSZUF89yWP 

• Our most recent podcast, S2E13, on the Excel Shooting - https://youtu.be/tgRFux1EtWQ 

• Rachel Kleinfeld on the Attempted Assassination of Donald Trump and the Rise of Political Violence in America - https://yaschamounk.substack.com/p/kleinfeld2?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2

• An interesting, and mostly 3rd Space, conversation between Jon Stewart and Bill O’Reilly on The Daily Show after the Trump assassination attempt. https://youtu.be/h7qZE4C_neo?si=a7ZjJTDAsevxBGeL 

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Meet Lamar & Tom

Lamar Roth & Tom Klaus are lifelong friends exploring how to get to a Third Space - a space where two or more people with opposing viewpoints, ideologies, and worldviews can come together to hear, listen, share, and connect with one another. Together Lamar and Tom hope to carve out a Third Space where everything can be on the table for open, straightforward, honest, and, yet kind and respectful inquiry. 

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