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I will admit that I have taken Richard Haase’s premise somewhat out of context. What he meant when saying one of
the habits of healthy citizenship is “Putting Country First,” is that we should forsake partisan politics for the wellbeing of the whole country. We have gotten so caught up in supporting Red or Blue, or as is the case now, pro- or anti- one particular demagogical figure, that we’ve made it extremely difficult to hold civil conversations without them escalating rapidly. We’ve gotten so used to needing to hold our political ground that we’ve forgotten to do what is best for the whole of the nation
