[music] >> I am worried about our national vocabulary. I'm worried about our way of speaking and thinking, which often begins with an idealized us, and then moves swiftly to define and discredit a rigidly conceived them. Language has gone from being a bridge to being a barricade separating us from one another.Words that exacerbate the differences between us have been tasked with sorting us into camps and activating our knee-jerk outrage and mistrust. To a certain extent, this is even true of the ways we som ...