Death Threats and Political Intimidation: Upton and Omar Leading by Examples (Poll Shows Americans want RINOS and DINOS)

Strength isn't only about power and might but also about political capital and getting things done. Anger and ideological blindness is taking a toll on Americans and concepts of "togetherness" around core principles as an important avenue forward. Regardless of our political persuasion Rep. Fred Upton (R) and Rep. Ilhan Omar (D) have shown it is possible to work and empathize across the isle and that could be the start of something small but important for political relations ("RINOS" and "DINOS" have shown they can be core party faithful while still working with others. 🦏💕🦖=🗽 Liberty!)

Pew Poll

There are people who want the different partisan sides to start working together and are becoming concerned with the prospects of democracy (See Pew Diversity and Division in Advanced Economies). The poll indicates that a huge majority of Americans are concerned with high conflict differences such as political (90%) and racial (71%) divisions, religion (49%) and country-city divide (42%).

What we also find in this poll is that 86% of younger people feel that different ethnic races, religions, and people's are important to develop a better place to live. That same trend is found across many countries in the world and I think its helpful for politicians to take note that the fringe may get the microphone but that the trends of society indicate something different (Meaning radical supporters have loud voices but are not reflective of society.🤔).

Upton and Omar's ability to communicate and treat each other civilly starts to follow that trend where variety and spice of life is an asset. The next generation will hold significant power and it will be those centralist voices that are likely to appeal to them from a leadership standpoint.

(There is a study on Bi-partisanship Legislative Effectiveness entitled 'Are Bipartisan Lawmakers More Effective?', looks like working paper, that while bi-partisanship in Congress isn't what brings forward bills it is what helps get them passed into law at a higher rate. If we introduced well thought out bi-partisan bills by people who actually want to solve problems we might have higher political outcomes and as a tertiary bonus prompt people to raise Public Trust stats of Congress and government. )

From a political position, it is the young that are now starting to take politics seriously and will likely bend the current extremist curves toward something more healthy. Thus the next generation of leaders are likely to be be more educated, more global, and more tolerant of differences if we do not allow far right or left derailment to cause a train crash before that happens (See Global Cultural Intelligence, Millennial Market Changes, Global Cultural Perspective, Social & Emotional Intelligence)

(There are a number of important indicators that highlight how we might start to transform in the Digital Era/Info Age if those who feel like they are loosing power hijack our development as a nation. Fear of losing power often drives self-serving anger in highly competitive environments. You can read the study, '“Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it”: the combined effects of leader fear of losing power and competitive climate on leader self-serving behavior' Death threats, breaking into offices, corruption, group intimidation, blind hate support, etc... can cause social havoc that leads to infighting and national decline. Just like in relationships toxicity and 'might over right' is unlikely to have a positive long term and leads to all types of destructive outcomes.).

You can read and article by Melissa Nann Burke in the Detroit News to get a picture of what is going on 'Upton sought out Omar to express support after they both received 'nasty' death threats'