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A wonderful thing about running for President is that every idiotic thing you’ve ever said surfaces on the internet for you to look at. A video is making the rounds of me saying in 2005 that red states have a higher murder rate than blue states, more teen pregnancies, etc. While it may have been technically accurate, that kind of polarizing rhetoric — the red-blue blame game — is the last thing our country needs today. Whoever is to “blame” for gun violence or teen pregnancy, it isn’t the Republicans or the Democrats. It is both and it is neither. Our problems arise from a deeper source than mere party difference, and the solutions must draw on a deeper source as well. I cringe when I revisit my days as a partisan warrior. Later, and especially through Covid, I came to realize that both Left and Right subscribe to unconscious orthodoxies that freeze our country in a holding pattern, actually a downward spiral. We are addicted to blame. It’s tempting to score political points that way, but we have to move beyond that and see, even in our opponents, a genuine desire to heal this nation so that all can thrive.