{"id":10165,"date":"2017-12-27T04:01:30","date_gmt":"2017-12-27T04:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/?p=10165"},"modified":"2018-02-11T07:57:53","modified_gmt":"2018-02-11T07:57:53","slug":"2018-01-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2018-01-21\/","title":{"rendered":"Uniting the Divided States of America"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>Michael Abramson<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>January 21, 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-10184 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Divided-States-of-America-150x92.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"92\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Divided-States-of-America-150x92.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Divided-States-of-America-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Divided-States-of-America.jpg 433w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 85vw, 150px\" \/>Michael Abramson is a physicist specializing in system modeling and simulations, and a concerned citizen leading a &#8220;Positive Agenda&#8221; group who is involved with a number of activist organizations. He will present a new taxonomy of major political groups in our society, highlighting what is common for all of them. Understanding and acknowledging this commonality is a first critical step if we want to overcome our bitter political divisions. How can we come together and build the better and stronger America for all? What our next steps could be? Who could lead the way? It may not be easy to answer these questions, but let&#8217;s start this conversation.<\/p>\n<p>Documents for this event:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/UnitingTheDividedStatesOfAmerica.pdf\">Uniting The Divided States Of America<br \/>\n<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Taxonomy.pdf\">Taxonomy<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/255113403\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/255113403\">Humanist Community Forum (2018-01-21): Uniting the Divided States of America &#8211; Michael Abramson<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/hcsv\">Humanist Community-SiliconValley<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nRSVP on Meetup <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meetup.com\/humanistcommunity\/events\/246227489\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\nLike us on Facebook <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/humanistcommsv\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\nFollow us on Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HumanistCommSV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\nSee videos of our past Forums <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/user2798508\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Abramson January 21, 2018 Michael Abramson is a physicist specializing in system modeling and simulations, and a concerned citizen leading a &#8220;Positive Agenda&#8221; group who is involved with a number of activist organizations. He will present a new taxonomy of major political groups in our society, highlighting what is common for all of them. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2018-01-21\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Uniting the Divided States of America&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[243,26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10165"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10165"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10218,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10165\/revisions\/10218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}