You might know where my head is at by my admission that the first time I read the title I thought of the usage of loom as a verb, as in "to appear to the mind in a magnified and threatening form". Perhaps that is because everywhere we turn it seems that someone is trying to make me more anxious and something than I need to be in that moment. As I continued to read, however, I became more convinced that Parker was in fact using the noun form, as in, the machine that weavers use to weave fabric out of threads. This, of course, makes much more sense.
Democracy is designed to hold tension and dissent so that divergent problems can be addressed creatively. Some of us may feel that creativity slipping away. I'd really like someone who is involved with politics more than I am to weigh in on this. Is this creative tension a good thing? Can you tell us a story of reaching across the aisle to enact positive change?
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