By developing this approach, we might learn to think through things together a bit better, generate a feeling of personal connection despite political differences, and help one another to think through things.
With more encouragement and practice of such direct peaceful and respectful one-on-one voice discussions between people on different sides of the issues, we might, as a society, develop a better sense of how to talk directly with one another. We might learn to think through things together a bit better, generate a feeling of personal connection despite differences of outlook, and help to stimulate a little more curiosity about things we think we already know. That, in short, might help to vastly extend real public education – for adults of all ages and in all walks of life – and might help to make our society a bit wiser overall.
To think that one could engage in such a twenty or thirty minute conversation once, or a few times, a week for half an hour and to have many thousands or perhaps millions of people doing so on a regular basis might, in some way, over time, develop a better sense of connection between us, and could maybe help to build a more dynamic and open society and help along the kind of educated population that could help our democracy to make more sound judgments overall.