I adore your ability to critically think but I am hard pressed to understand how reaching out to these truly psychotic people who built this corrupt community for well over 50 years with willful intent to destroy this democracy and with extreme indifference to the suffering they continue to inflict on good, honest, hardworking people who only want to help our egalitarian society will suddenly have the courage to find their humanity.
A brilliant analysis, Jim and I couldn't agree more. Love trumps hate, and heartfelt communication has way more power than ridicule and alienation. Some of Trump's supporters are malevolent souls; forget them, but more of them are just misled. It's a ground game and everyone needs to get on board.
I love this idea. To reach out to someone who became MAGA, and just say you're thinking about them. I have a good friend I stopped talking to when she became a Trump supporter. I felt so offended at the time. I miss her. I know she's a lonely person underneath everything. I will reach out to her, just say I miss her. Wow: think of it! All across America, like little candles being lit, all of us individuals reaching out to friends, neighbors, co workers lost to this cult.... Wow. Thank you Jim, as always.
It was very encouraging to read your suggestion about connecting with people one at a time. I have been doing that with three trump-supporting friends since trump was reelected. One is a high school friend who is very interested in literature and hates political correctness. We are now seeing literary repression in spades, which I mention in non threatening ways in normal conversation (“ did you hear To Kill a Mockingbird has been banned in a number of schools”). One is my college roommate who is married to a lawyer who clerked for Robert Bork and lives in SWVirginia. Her I can talk to about inconsistencies such as right to life people who haven’t spoken up while babies are dying in Africa due to our abrupt cutoff of aid (“or is different if the babies are black”). The third is a lovely woman in her eighties (as am I) and also a very devout Catholic. I have tried to point out to her how disconcerted I am about the hardship visited on poor small children which, in our shared Christian faith, is not what Jesus would want to see. I don’t talk about how bad trump and the 🐘s are. I come at it from a point of how sad and depressing I find these government choices to be. I guess it’s working because we are still friends and even if it doesn’t cause immediate conversion at least they hear different opinions from someone they know and respect.
I adore your ability to critically think but I am hard pressed to understand how reaching out to these truly psychotic people who built this corrupt community for well over 50 years with willful intent to destroy this democracy and with extreme indifference to the suffering they continue to inflict on good, honest, hardworking people who only want to help our egalitarian society will suddenly have the courage to find their humanity.
A brilliant analysis, Jim and I couldn't agree more. Love trumps hate, and heartfelt communication has way more power than ridicule and alienation. Some of Trump's supporters are malevolent souls; forget them, but more of them are just misled. It's a ground game and everyone needs to get on board.
I love this idea. To reach out to someone who became MAGA, and just say you're thinking about them. I have a good friend I stopped talking to when she became a Trump supporter. I felt so offended at the time. I miss her. I know she's a lonely person underneath everything. I will reach out to her, just say I miss her. Wow: think of it! All across America, like little candles being lit, all of us individuals reaching out to friends, neighbors, co workers lost to this cult.... Wow. Thank you Jim, as always.
It was very encouraging to read your suggestion about connecting with people one at a time. I have been doing that with three trump-supporting friends since trump was reelected. One is a high school friend who is very interested in literature and hates political correctness. We are now seeing literary repression in spades, which I mention in non threatening ways in normal conversation (“ did you hear To Kill a Mockingbird has been banned in a number of schools”). One is my college roommate who is married to a lawyer who clerked for Robert Bork and lives in SWVirginia. Her I can talk to about inconsistencies such as right to life people who haven’t spoken up while babies are dying in Africa due to our abrupt cutoff of aid (“or is different if the babies are black”). The third is a lovely woman in her eighties (as am I) and also a very devout Catholic. I have tried to point out to her how disconcerted I am about the hardship visited on poor small children which, in our shared Christian faith, is not what Jesus would want to see. I don’t talk about how bad trump and the 🐘s are. I come at it from a point of how sad and depressing I find these government choices to be. I guess it’s working because we are still friends and even if it doesn’t cause immediate conversion at least they hear different opinions from someone they know and respect.