With the No Kings thing coming up on the 18th, let me share another one of my observations. It seems to me like liberals have an entirely different approach to 'unifying' than conservatives do. (And they have max disdain for one another, I might add).
When liberals want to band together and make things happen, they dress up in silly costumes and hit the streets with signs protesting or promoting every cause they can think of. If they run out of causes, they invent some new ones.
Conservatives, on the other hand, seem to prefer well-orchestrated convention-style pep rallies, just like the ones they used to have on Friday afternoons before a big high school game against an evil rival.
Witness the funeral for Charlie Kirk. It was almost like a GOP political convention, with caustic speeches, Lee Greenwood music, lots of praying, and every well-known top-echelon leader and influencer on hand to party hearty, bash liberals, and cheer-lead for their team (while bidding farewell to Charlie along the way). Instead of signs, the messaging was on ballcaps, the uniform of down-home populist champions. (That opening in the back, I've decided, had to have been invented expressly for blond pony-tails)
Now, it seems to me that the Opposition movement, in order have any hope of defeating MAGA, is going to need both progressives and conservatives enthusiastically onboard. Maybe they need to rethink the optics and come up with an approach that works for both. Liz Cheney-style necktie-wearing staunch conservatives are not likely going to mingle in the crowd of weed-toking hippies on No Kings Day. But neither do I look for the shirt-less, braless folk-singing kumbaya bunch to break bread with neocon John Bolton or Marjorie Taylor Green.
Maybe come up with a more unifying approach to bringing folks together? Ya think?
If it's the other side doing most of the violence and mayhem, as you may believe, consider this: Maybe they are angry because your side is deliberately poking at them and doing everything imaginable to piss them off. Here's a thought. How about if both sides stop making everything out to be a war? And who should lead that cause? The influencers, that's who. Civility has to start at the top. It's up to those with the huge megaphones and huge followings to stop deliberately saying things that piss off the other side. And it's up to us to stop watching them, listening to them, and voting for them. Every screen has an off button. If you can't find it, or don't want to, you are largely to blame for the violence and mayhem.
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With the No Kings thing coming up on the 18th, let me share another one of my observations. It seems to me like liberals have an entirely different approach to 'unifying' than conservatives do. (And they have max disdain for one another, I might add).
When liberals want to band together and make things happen, they dress up in silly costumes and hit the streets with signs protesting or promoting every cause they can think of. If they run out of causes, they invent some new ones.
Conservatives, on the other hand, seem to prefer well-orchestrated convention-style pep rallies, just like the ones they used to have on Friday afternoons before a big high school game against an evil rival.
Witness the funeral for Charlie Kirk. It was almost like a GOP political convention, with caustic speeches, Lee Greenwood music, lots of praying, and every well-known top-echelon leader and influencer on hand to party hearty, bash liberals, and cheer-lead for their team (while bidding farewell to Charlie along the way). Instead of signs, the messaging was on ballcaps, the uniform of down-home populist champions. (That opening in the back, I've decided, had to have been invented expressly for blond pony-tails)
Now, it seems to me that the Opposition movement, in order have any hope of defeating MAGA, is going to need both progressives and conservatives enthusiastically onboard. Maybe they need to rethink the optics and come up with an approach that works for both. Liz Cheney-style necktie-wearing staunch conservatives are not likely going to mingle in the crowd of weed-toking hippies on No Kings Day. But neither do I look for the shirt-less, braless folk-singing kumbaya bunch to break bread with neocon John Bolton or Marjorie Taylor Green.
Maybe come up with a more unifying approach to bringing folks together? Ya think?
If it's the other side doing most of the violence and mayhem, as you may believe, consider this: Maybe they are angry because your side is deliberately poking at them and doing everything imaginable to piss them off. Here's a thought. How about if both sides stop making everything out to be a war? And who should lead that cause? The influencers, that's who. Civility has to start at the top. It's up to those with the huge megaphones and huge followings to stop deliberately saying things that piss off the other side. And it's up to us to stop watching them, listening to them, and voting for them. Every screen has an off button. If you can't find it, or don't want to, you are largely to blame for the violence and mayhem.
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