We will never take back this country if we condemn entire demographic groups because how others in that group voted. There is no end to the blame game until it becomes a death spiral for our nation. The answer to hate isn’t louder hate even against the people who had nothing to do with it.
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Are you aware of another strategy that has been successful against fascism?
He wrote:
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that."
Hear that MAGA? Got that blame gamers?
Turn up your light.
Tune up your love.
We've got plenty of darkness and hate to move.
-signed one of the 92%
It is important to be mad at the right thing.
It's not your neighbors or your community. They've been lied to too.
Get mad at the liars.
I find I only have so many hours in the day and I try to best spend it where I think I can make a difference.
I act local. Pay attention to local races. Local issues. And support local organizations.
Being mad is exhausting.
You don't have to listen to them. Or attack them. Or forgive them.
You don't have to think about them at all.
Be mad at the correct thing.
To quote a specific alien character... GLORIOUS!
It's ok to condemn Trump voters, but it's counterproductive to cast a wider net.
Is that okay?
The biggest group non voters, through fear, apathy or (hard to believe) lack of information. Fix THAT first.
I am the type to be brutal and use physical force. You are the negotiator.
“The revolution will not be televised”
I can understand the basic appeal if you are oblivious to the rest of his actions.
It's a fact that we have a shared interdependence. Not all MAGAs fit the box our tribalism tries to put them in
The problem is the oligarchy and they need us fighting each other
please. They give none of that for free. It’s labor.
Lolololololol.
I don’t know the solution but appeasement is not one of them.
We white people need to have hard conversations with each other. We're the ones who fucked this up. Even if you didn't vote that way, you gotta jump in and help to fix it.
We white people are all responsible as a collective AND THAT'S how everybody else has it figured out.
It's the gut-wrenching truth. It's the heartbreaking truth.
And that's precisely where we HAVE TO begin the hard work. Not by pretending that somehow 'it's bad, but supposedly..not 'that bad'!
No. It's THAT BAD.
Our white brethren are behaving destructively and they won't hear a word of criticism from anyone other than white men.
If we aren't the problem, the complaint is asking us to be part of the solution.
I mean, unless you are, but your stance appears to be frustration at being lumped in with those who are.
As members of the in-group, it's easy for us to not see or excuse behavior that's harmful to others, so this is us being told about it.
my ass off.
I get the frustration, but we're big boys, Fred. Specifically, we're white men; nothing they say or do to call out white mens' behavior will negatively impact us regardless of whether we're guilty of that behavior.
Here's a list of news outlets on "TV" that I trust:
1.
I would list all of the TV /cable news outlets that I do not trust, mostly because of ownership, censorship and followership, but it would take some time and I need to work.
The Fifth Estate now lives in independent online sources. That is where I average out journalism now.
I respect some of the people on MSNBC, but not Comcast in any way
The only way forward is to show those who serve injustice that they have a better choice, a moral and human choice. Not with insults or threats but through deep, difficult, undiscriminating love
My partner and I say this all the time
"We gotta stop screaming at people who may have been willing to learn"
But I want to
Hate begets hate begets more hate. That's pretty much what Bannon wants- increasingly acrimonious division.
It's also coming in insidious forms, like bots masquerading as D's, upping the ante of backlash hate.
Then that gives genuine D's permission to hate- JUST LIKE TRMP did for his minions
that’s fucking hate
The mass of the electorate remains in the middle Grey Area. Many held their nose before selecting either candidate.
MAGA is not a bloc. Its zealots are not its mass.
Your Uncle or Aunt who held their noses and voted not like you are not (necessarily) deplorable.
Change OUR paradigm.
WTF!!! I've seen 2 states with bills to either buy counties in other state or incorporate counties into state i.e. Indiana bill proposed incorporating counties in Illinois into Indiana. Iowa Senator announces bill to Purchase Minnesota counties!?!
A place to start: 𝟴𝟬 𝗠𝗜𝗟𝗟𝗜𝗢𝗡 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝗱𝗶𝗱 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝘃𝗼𝘁𝗲.
Ask questions with How? or What if? or How might?
(not Why)
Encourage others to ask more questions.
Encourage thinking.
Brainstorm answers together.
Consider solutions together.
Dialogue need not require or include blaming.
I do not mean that in a bad way, but you may be to close to that particular tree and it's obscuring the forest.
You cannot "tell" any type of addict anything. It's their journey.
There are many constituencies within the so-called block. One such are people who I call chemotherapy voters.
These are folks who have a pretty good idea of who Trump is. /1
The central principle of chemotherapy is the hope it will kill the cancer before it kills you.
I think this is the constituency that will become disillusioned first. /X
The only difference between 2024 and 2020 is that there are fewer old voters and more young voters. Defeating trump and the GOP should have been a piece of cake.
“White women wanted this”
“White men wanted this”
“Boomers wanted this”
Young men wanted this”
on and on and on.
netanyahu, trumps cock holster, then decimated Palestinians and prolonged the attack. Simple.
We needed to be adults. Those non-voters, MAGAS, and third party voters chose to take a risk. They too share responsibility and they're mighty angry that people are saying it.
It's the same as everywhere else:
- people who are not suffering wars, starvation, real disintegration of society
- but feel like victims because they do not prosper either
Do not vote.
The other people really are victims, they just don’t realize they are victimizing themselves while waiting for others to solve their problems.
😖
Rest of us don't need a lecture from either of those on how we react
I think this is a Prisoner's Dilemma situation: we should treat them like they treat us until they change their ways. Do you have a better suggestion?
Corrupt government should be condemned. People should be more valued over money over politics over religion and over power. We stopped valuing human beings.
Morals, virtues values and simple compassion for humanity.
Stop SANEWASHING any Suouthern Baptist States! They deserve no quarter; as they are giving none to women, the poor and the fatherless
When "Someone" votes for fascism, and their friends/family just shrug about it, they are normalizing fascism themselves.
We do need to keep in mind, however, that this "Someone"'s entire cohort group isn't at fault.
There are opportunities there to alienate just about everybody if we aren't careful.
I’ll just clue everyone in as to why I made this comment.
The original author gave us all a “thou shall not” without providing a solution.
I’m asking for a solution, not a constraint.
Apologies if I’m not familiar with your larger body of work.
I’ll ask again - you tell me how we win our country back?
That demographic needs some comeuppance pretty soon.
Kindness and decency might work to change some minds, but it will definitely work to improve your own quality of life.
Dems need to stop trying to convince Trump voters; they’ll never change. They need to focus on the couch voters instead- couch+Harris voters=victory.
Distract the peasants with lies- make them hate and fear each other-and then pick their bones clean.
I hate every right-wing podcaster, Fox news propagandist, "influencer," and enabler.
It's as dumb to blame vets as it is to blame The Rock or Chappell Roan for not endorsing a candidate.
Punch up. Not down. Not laterally. Maybe diagonally. But definitely up. You prop up people, push up the best, and punch up at the rest.
Elon Musk should never be second in line to #POTUS. They are to blame.
But I think Trump is going all the way with this so we are going to see blood on the streets.
My hope is he gets sued to the hilt and that slows his tirade down enough for a DEM sweep in the mid-terms - that is IF there are free and fair elections again.