Demand Responsible Civic Discussion and Engagement!

While we all have excellent grounds for presuming the good faith and moral integrity of those family, friends, neighbors, and co-workers with whom we disagree politically, and while we will continue to value and nourish those relationships, we will only invest time in POLITICAL discussions with those who evidence COMMITMENT to the following civic values, which are the price of admission for serious political conversation in a free society:

* Evidence-based assertions
* Telling the truth
* Demonstrating compassion
* Demonstrating moral integrity
* Respect for the written rule of law
* Adherence to the unwritten norms of civic virtue
* The nurturing of civil democratic institutions such as families, the workplace, and other voluntary associations.