4 Problems with Depolarization Efforts (and how to remedy them)

Ryan Nakade
8 min readJul 20, 2021

There are many sincere and well-intentioned movements to depolarize America such as Braver Angels, Living Room Conversations, and Crossing Party Lines (amongst others). These groups hold workshops and dialogue events to bring people of diverging political beliefs together to listen and learn from each other, with the hope of finding common ground and humanizing the “other side.”…

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Ryan Nakade

Depolarization, mediation, dialogue. Integrative solutions to cultural conflict. And diaphanous goat whisperer.