I'm Michelle Goldberg.
I'm a columnist for the New York Times opinion section.
I recently went to a rally for Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
in Oakland, California.
We need to sit with each other and listen to the feelings and not walk away and not see each other as enemies.
Learn to love each other even through that anger and vitriol.
We need to start coming back to each other as Americans again.
It was at the Henry J.Kaiser Convention Center,
this huge auditorium that wasn't anywhere close to full,
although there were hundreds of people there,
people who had very eccentric politics.
I witnessed one interesting exchange outside where somebody was collecting signatures to try to reinstate California's three strikes laws,
basically to make criminal penalties stricter in California.
He went up to these two white-haired men who really blanched and they were like,
"No, we're from the left.
We have no interest in law and order crackdowns."
One of them was wearing a button that said, "Ask me about 9/11,"
which I actually didn't because I didn't have that much time.
Kennedy, it seems obvious,
is going to play a spoiler role in this election,