A Two Old Men Disputing by Rembrandt (1628) - cropped Every now and then, whether it be at the Christmas dinner table or a friend's get-together, we find the conversation tends to meander its way to one of the most incendiary and charged topics of all: politics.1 In my experience, this usually happens later in the evening when glasses are half empty and a crapulous haze of unfiltered opinion starts to muddy the atmosphere. At this point, it may be prudent to remind everyone in the room to agree to at least take some of the following points to heart... 1. What is our unstated end goal for this discussion?Do we want to share our opinions with the goal of merely letting others know what they are? Or are we wanting to share our opinions to improve the collective understanding of today's political intricacies within this social setting?2 If the answer is the first one, then perhaps we should avoid the subject entirely for the sake of keeping the peace; the outcome of the discussion may be…
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