The commutation of Santos’ sentence finally did it for me. I lost it. But in the heat of that moment I decided what I specifically am going to do to resist against this bs. I’m doing two specific things.
First I’m taking on one friend at a time to try and sit down with them and debate it all out in the hopes of changing one person’s mind. If every one of us flipped just one person we know, we’d flip future elections.
And I’m not trying to flip them to Democrats. After all I’m not a Democrat. Instead I’m trying to change their thinking around the type of qualities and behaviors they should expect from elected officials. And I’m trying to help them understand what position they think they are taking in politics vs what they are actually taking. One example is the person who says they believe in “conservative values” . This government is not following conservative values right now
To do this, I’m going to have to construct an argument that addresses most or all of the reasons why people have chosen to date to support this crap. It’s a combination of fighting disinformation and changing their perspective and giving them facts. And I will have to give them clarity on what they should do while not abandoning their core beliefs, even if they are misguided.
Does this seem like an impossible task? Yes. That’s why I I have part 2 of my plan, which I already started last night. I had an uncomfortable conversation with the person in our group who is the most liked. He is fully aware of the Trump bs and illegal/immoral behavior of this administration and Republican party. But he says he doesn’t know what he can do about it. He’s only one guy. He always steers away from politics among a mixed group of us.
I convinced him to think the same way as me. Help me flip one guy in our group. Rather than steer away, privately work on one guy at a time, respectfully. Now our friends will be hearing it from two of us, the guy they like the most and me, who they regard as generally the most knowledgeable in the group.
If all of us flipped just one relative or friend, we could get control of this mess.