i know there's a lot of data that making people who are members of a cult feel like credulous rubes just gets them even more into the cult but, with trumpism, i think the people we need to convince are not the cultists but the marginally attached low-info voters so maybe mockery is good?
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Also mocking the cultists is super fun. They get super angry cause somewhere deep down they know what a colossal fucking moronic rube they are.
(Speaking as a person raised as part of the bourgeois classes who has worked over 1/3 of my life (2/3 of my working life) with an organization by and for members of the working class)
The white collar progressives I know are all polite and respectful but they’re also confident, independent, and pugnacious when necessary. It’s one of the things that makes me optimistic about the future.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Engle#Smoking_class_action_suit
Wonder if people who get infected by preventable diseases would have standing to be a class under similar cirumstances? Doubt it, as anti-vax is not a product
Theres a problem here where there’s virtually isn’t a “mass society” you can be functionally banished from. MAGA is a clearing house for every malignant concept in society
But! Eligible non-voters already outnumber Trump voters and are probably easier to reach, generally speaking.
That said we did also mock people for being afraid of shots a lot lol
My experience was the opposite, working w/ undergrads. Helping them not to dig in, asking them to explain their qualms - meant they had to hear themselves, and the hesitation they already had about avoiding vaccines. They didn't want to be cut off from family/religion . . .
#Feb28DontBuyAnything.
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Mock the policies and the politicians - plenty of meat there, and you have very little to gain by punching laterally / down at people who are about to be having a really rough time.
And we need to focus on reaching out to that 30% of the country who didn't vote bc neither party represents what they want.
https://bsky.app/profile/russellsilva.bsky.social/post/3land2yu2ws22
Well, that crook just increased the price of metal and the chance of
Planes crashing.
Not to mention, these people are primed to listen to anger -- take any Trump rally as an example
How do you respond to mockery? Do you run towards it?