Civil Discourse Might Be Dying

I’ll write a letter

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I live in a small town with big hearts, but small minds. Where you could joke that everyone is related to everyone else and it might just be true. Where the world is so small— until, something controversial grasps the entire country and then unresearched opinions turn to gospel.

It takes everything in me to stay quiet because any opinion that was not verified by…