September 9, 2010Poison and predictable. I’m buying this book so THEY can be civil.

Filed under: How to restore sanity,Poison Phrase of the Week by merylrunion |

So predictable. I revised my political communication book for release before the upcoming election. My publisher mentioned it on Facebook. All the comments were in this vein.

- I’d like to “gift” a lot of people with that book.

Why is that a Poison Phrase? Because it misses the fact that the most valuable resource you have is your own responses. This book is for YOU, not them. So you can be civil whether they are or not. And so you can turn a contentious conversation civil.

Actually, I wrote it for myself, so I wouldn’t be taken out by good people who turn into reptiles over the mention of politics. But then I rewrote it for YOU. So you can Unite and Concur.

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