Martha Engber (@marthaengberauthor.bsky.social)

Citizen Spotlight: Allison K. Ralph, an Expert on Pluralism, Metaphors and Changing Focus to From Doom to Fun You can view the interview on the Vigilant Positivity YouTube channel. My recent post, “Why Americans Aren’t Joining the Bridging Movement…Yet” (Wordpress, Substack) was inspired by reading Allison K. Ralph’s article titled “We Need A New Metaphor of Us” in The Fulcrum. For me, the piece shown light on why it’s going to be very hard to come up with a sales pitch that gets Americans to jump ship from their disparate political parties and tribes into a movement that gets us working together for the best outcome for all of us. https://vigilantpositivity.wordpress.com/2026/07/09/citizen-spotlight-allison-k-ralph-an-expert-on-pluralism-metaphors-and-changing-focus-to-from-doom-to-fun/