In this edition of ‘Brooding,’ Kathryn Jezer-Morton argues that parents today should not teach their kids to identify with any political party.
or event, he’ll always pipe up from the back seat: “So what did you guys think?” He begs my husband and me to rehash a get-together with the same ardency with which he asks for sneakers and candy. I think he loves this because by assessing and, yes, judging our experiences , we are reaffirming our own little group identity. From the back seat of the RAV4, listening in on what we thought about the food and the company, he’s feeling the warm embrace of belonging to a family tribe.
Democrat parents have a bit of a golden-rule problem on our hands. We deplore the dehumanizing rhetoric of our opponents — the way they sneer about cat ladies and immigrants and trans people. So we often dehumanize our opponents right back, calling them pure evil and dangerous. We say this in front of our kids, and they hear it as part of our story of tribal belonging.
Why would I want to humanize my opponents if they insist on dehumanizing my friends and loved ones? For one thing, those of us who enjoy the safety of privilege — white people, cisgendered people — owe it to those who don’t to do the awkward and sometimes dreadful work of engaging in good faith with people whose politics we abhor. And if we’re parents, we owe it to our children to give them the tools to do that communication.
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