Mariana Farmer’s Reviews > I Love You, but I Hate Your Politics: How to Protect Your Intimate Relationships in a Poisonous Partisan World > Status Update

"Empathy does not require identical points of view...Empathy is not an endorsement. It is possible to seek - and to find - spacious common ground outside of politics, because as we have seen, politics is by no means the only way that fundamental values are expressed."

"... America's problem in these fraught times - is a striking example of the tenacity of relentless hope. The failure to grieve for past disappointments and to acknowledge the limits of one's power over other people perpetuates the cycle, in love and politics." ... A lot of wisdom and finding it to be a great read so far.