The Revolution Is Coming Soon

Americans Who Don't Hate Each Other Is Set to Launch

It should have arrived sooner. A lot sooner.

Because we have long since reached a critical mass of Americans who do hate each other, primarily over our political disagreements. This has led to tragic consequences for our nation.

It doesn’t matter exactly when or how we hit the breaking point. Neither does the proportion of blame that each side bears.

What matters is abnormalizing the hatred of our countrymen and women and rebuilding our nation’s unity.

So, better late than never—in the middle of the most vitriolic election since the last one and until the next one—I give you Americans Who Don’t Hate Each Other (AWDHEO). As stated on the Welcome page, AWDHEO represents “the voice of those who don’t wish to sacrifice their humanity at the altar of politics.”

More than that, AWDHEO seeks to become a community for people who are done with the status quo of toxic, national polarization or at least would like to be. Where families and friendships are shredded over political disagreements. Where public spaces are becoming resegregated, now along partisan lines. Where every arena of life becomes another theater in the never-ending war between blue and red.

Change happens when enough people start talking about an issue that it penetrates our national consciousness. Journalists begin to write about it. Talking heads start to talk about it. Politicians and other public figures weigh in. And the issue becomes the subject of universal discussion on social media and at water coolers and kitchen tables.

To spark these conversations, AWDHEO needs you. To read. To subscribe. To comment. To connect with others in this space. To invite others to join. To share links from the site. To tell people about the site. To guest-post even, perhaps. And, if you feel led to do so, to contribute financially.

For the foreseeable future, everything posted on the site will be free. Readers will have the option to voluntarily subsidize it once the site launches, however.

AWDHEO will also be used as a platform to promote my upcoming book, The Anti-Partisan Manifesto: How Parties and Partisanism Divide America and How to Shut Them Down (2024), which expands on the ideas that will be presented on the site. Portions of articles featured on the site will be derived from the book’s content.

The first post/newsletter will be published on Tuesday, June 4. Weekly posts will then go up and be sent out every Tuesday. Additional content will also pop up from time to time.

Perhaps historians will look back on the first Tuesday of June 2024 as the day when the reformation of American democracy began. It has to start somewhere, right?

Why not here?