Those may be our private judgments with regard to that hard core of unteachables within the Trump voter base. You may recall Hillary Clinton's reference to Trump supporters as 'deplorables', and how that appellation played out in the states that Clinton lost. You cannot merely dismiss these people; and therefore, you need to at least try…
Those may be our private judgments with regard to that hard core of unteachables within the Trump voter base. You may recall Hillary Clinton's reference to Trump supporters as 'deplorables', and how that appellation played out in the states that Clinton lost. You cannot merely dismiss these people; and therefore, you need to at least try to see the world as they do, because how they see the world will pretty much dictate how they respond to it. Our job is to reframe the conversation in ways that reinforce common goals and values. People invent conspiracy theories because they are scared to death of what they do not know; and ridiculing them, and condemning them is a waste of breath, and self-defeating. Finding some sort of common ground, no matter how small, is the place we need to start, and we start by lowering the temperature of the conversation.
There is no common ground. They prefer a white autocracy to a democracy without a systemic bias favoring the white population. Every hour or dollar spent trying to convince white voters to vote for Democrats would get ten times as many Democratic votes if it were applied to the task of getting Americans with non-European ancestors registered to vote and to the polls to cast their votes. We have enough votes to outvote them but just barely. Hardly a vote to spare and no time or money to spare in the long process required to convince white people with Republican inclinations to change their minds.
I disagree, vehemently. There is common ground if you're willing to look for it. We didn't always have these divisions, until we allowed social media companies to monopolize the conversation. Your post assumes facts not in evidence, that white people uniformly are in a state of insurrection and rebellion against what our nation stands for. That unfounded echo chamber amplifies noise over dialogue. There is nothing that cannot be negotiated to serve the common good. We have always adhered to the principle of majority rule, even where local practices fell short from time to time. Except for a tiny minority, whites are not single issue voters, neither are other social groups. Sixty years ago, biracial families and interracial marriage was almost nil, and prohibited by law in 31 states. Now, as President Biden observed recently, you cannot watch an hour of television without seeing advertisements of consumer products that feature biracial social groups and families. That's progress that goes totally unacknowledged in your comment. The advertisers have gotten it right, and are betting large sums of money that don't care all that much about racial groupings.Bill Maher's commentary last Friday, when he chided those whom he called out as 'progressophobics' for pretending that no social progress has been made. That assertion is demonstrably false, and watching Woke heads explode added to the satisfaction of them having to admit to themselves that they were wrong was immensely satisfying. Bottom line, being both stubborn and stupid in a good cause is just as wrong-headed as doing it in a bad cause. I'm more inclined to call out nitwit claiming to be progressives because their immediate goal is a self-satisfied emotional thrill. Sorry, guys, that's not on our agenda. We need to operate on the assumption that some significant fraction of those opposing us are ambivalent and not entirely sold in their opposition to measures and policies we are proposing. Everything can be improved, and the more people who get involved, the better the outcome tends to be. So apply some calculus to your method and break the problems down into solvable modules, and work from there. Reframe problems. When problems are resolved, there's more than enough credit to go around.
Those may be our private judgments with regard to that hard core of unteachables within the Trump voter base. You may recall Hillary Clinton's reference to Trump supporters as 'deplorables', and how that appellation played out in the states that Clinton lost. You cannot merely dismiss these people; and therefore, you need to at least try to see the world as they do, because how they see the world will pretty much dictate how they respond to it. Our job is to reframe the conversation in ways that reinforce common goals and values. People invent conspiracy theories because they are scared to death of what they do not know; and ridiculing them, and condemning them is a waste of breath, and self-defeating. Finding some sort of common ground, no matter how small, is the place we need to start, and we start by lowering the temperature of the conversation.
There is no common ground. They prefer a white autocracy to a democracy without a systemic bias favoring the white population. Every hour or dollar spent trying to convince white voters to vote for Democrats would get ten times as many Democratic votes if it were applied to the task of getting Americans with non-European ancestors registered to vote and to the polls to cast their votes. We have enough votes to outvote them but just barely. Hardly a vote to spare and no time or money to spare in the long process required to convince white people with Republican inclinations to change their minds.
I disagree, vehemently. There is common ground if you're willing to look for it. We didn't always have these divisions, until we allowed social media companies to monopolize the conversation. Your post assumes facts not in evidence, that white people uniformly are in a state of insurrection and rebellion against what our nation stands for. That unfounded echo chamber amplifies noise over dialogue. There is nothing that cannot be negotiated to serve the common good. We have always adhered to the principle of majority rule, even where local practices fell short from time to time. Except for a tiny minority, whites are not single issue voters, neither are other social groups. Sixty years ago, biracial families and interracial marriage was almost nil, and prohibited by law in 31 states. Now, as President Biden observed recently, you cannot watch an hour of television without seeing advertisements of consumer products that feature biracial social groups and families. That's progress that goes totally unacknowledged in your comment. The advertisers have gotten it right, and are betting large sums of money that don't care all that much about racial groupings.Bill Maher's commentary last Friday, when he chided those whom he called out as 'progressophobics' for pretending that no social progress has been made. That assertion is demonstrably false, and watching Woke heads explode added to the satisfaction of them having to admit to themselves that they were wrong was immensely satisfying. Bottom line, being both stubborn and stupid in a good cause is just as wrong-headed as doing it in a bad cause. I'm more inclined to call out nitwit claiming to be progressives because their immediate goal is a self-satisfied emotional thrill. Sorry, guys, that's not on our agenda. We need to operate on the assumption that some significant fraction of those opposing us are ambivalent and not entirely sold in their opposition to measures and policies we are proposing. Everything can be improved, and the more people who get involved, the better the outcome tends to be. So apply some calculus to your method and break the problems down into solvable modules, and work from there. Reframe problems. When problems are resolved, there's more than enough credit to go around.