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How community groups navigate unspoken ideological differences

Our neighborhood group formed to address local issues but every meeting devolves into people talking past each other because we all have different ideas about what community responsibility looks like and nobody wants to name that we're working from completely different political philosophies.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Civic-minded people are discovering that shared concern for community doesn't guarantee shared understanding of civic responsibility.

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