Forum: Bridging America’s Great Divide
Tue, Mar 17
|The Grove Hotel
Join City Club with speakers, Walt Minnick and Butch Otter for a conversation about how we can move beyond the vitriol and the animosity to rekindle a true American discourse.
Time & Location
Mar 17, 2020, 11:45 AM – 1:15 PM
The Grove Hotel, 245 S Capitol Blvd, Boise, ID 83702, USA
About the Event
It is hard to imagine a more contentious time in modern American politics — illustrated in visceral clarity by the President and the Speaker of House at the 2020 State of the Union Address.
It has gotten so bad that a PBS Frontline documentary pointed to "The Divided States of America,” and one analyst summed up the state of civic like by saying "loathing motivates voters more than loyalty."
But does fear and loathing have to drive our politics? Two Idaho leaders say it doesn’t have to be that way. Republican former Gov. Butch Otter and former Democratic Congressman Walt Minnick are co-chairs of an Idaho group working to demonstrate that people can cooperate even when they come from opposing perspectives. Otter’s involvement is a case in point: He joined the cause at the request of Keith Allred, Otter’s challenger in the 2010 gubernatorial race, who now runs the National…