If I were your dad, I’d be very proud to see the son I helped to bring to the world.

Thank you for saying what a lot of us who tire of a 24/7/365 circus of one side yelling at the other passing for democracy.

Spirited debate is important. Making compromise is important. Owning your position is important.

You know what else is important? What you said here:

“If we shame curiosity, our country will never stop being scarred by the battle lines we draw to ward off the loony toon republicans or the batshit democrats. Exalt curiosity. Exalt the ability to hold someone else’s belief in your mind for a moment. You might find we disagree on fewer points than you thought, or you might find that this other person is insane and I am the God of right and wrong. I think that sort of certainty is always insane, but arriving there after actually engaging with an opposing opinion is the closest you’ll ever come to being right.”

Bless you and your dad.