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What my politically divided family teaches me | Tami Pyfer
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Tami Pyfer has five kids who belong to five different political parties, and sometimes family conversations get heated. Drawing on her work as a former policy advisor to the governor of Utah, she wanted to find a healthier way for people to talk about politics without contempt. The result is the Dignity Index: an eight-point scale that measures the language we use to disagree, aiming to ease political divisions. What score do you think your last conversation would get? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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You're listening to TED Talks Daily, where we bring you new ideas to spark your curiosity every day. I'm your host, Elise Hugh. Tammy Piper has decades under her belt as a civic leader and dialogue builder for democracy.
She had to look no further than her own dining room for professional insight. It turns out Tammy's family is her greatest area of political research. I have five kids who belong to five political parties. I have an independent, a Democrat,
a Democratic socialist, a libertarian, and a Republican. And my husband and I have different political views as well. Like so many of us, Tammy's witnessed her fair share
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