The future of our state and nation depends on moving past hyper-partisanship to value diverse perspectives, listen openly and work toward solutions that serve us all. The recent wave of political violence reminded us of how rapidly politics can slip into viciousness when our identities and rhetoric become sharper than our empathy.

At the West Virginia Women’s Alliance, our mission is to build bridges across party lines to secure practical support such as affordable, high-quality health care, education and child care -- and to keep women and families healthy and safe in their communities. In our quest to discern how to move past unprecedented partisan divides, I found Ezra Klein’s "Why We’re Polarized" illuminating.

In it, he explains how politics in America has shifted from a battle of c

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