How can more politicians take the high road?

Most people say they dislike dirty, negative politics. But when that is what wins many elections, how does the system change?

In a late 2018 speech, right before a Blue Wave hit Congress, the United States’ last president spoke to students. He urged them to vote like their lives depended on it. Because it did.

In the midst of talking about taking a political high road against a “darker aspect” of Americana that relatively few trod these days, Barack Obama noted that powerful forces wanting to divide people “did not start with…