DAVID HOGG, Parkland survivor tells 2nd Amendment supporters...

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But generation X, Y and M here in greater bay area California nearly puke at the next headline that contains the word "Trump". We were educated by the intellectuals of the 60's revolution- tail end of the boomers.
And there's another aspect: this one is speaking far louder than the hateful words of RW media, at last:
Migrant workers are here on contract, by the thousands. They miss their families. Some won't shut off Fox, spout nonsense at their work and get their contracts cut and sent home to sit on their couches and let
Fox, Limbaugh and Hannity make them angrier. Solves nothing. Stokes fear. Sells guns.
Yet a few of them I've witnessed the change. They're here. They hear. Sometimes they choose to listen. They come to realize going home where their "patriotic anti-socialist" bastard leaders have cut, cut, cut everything until even the WalMart they first lost their jobs to... is now closed.
One must be sly at this, to get them to put on the "THEY LIVE" sunglasses and see Hannity as he really is. There is seldom conversation at our work lunch table that doesn't include how utterly nonsensical, nut job crazy our political leadership is now. Sheepishly watching Fox in their company paid apartment, sometimes, it starts to soak in. Some have learned some new terms to them: corporatocracy, military industrial complex, the "oily-garchy", better survivability of the non-profit incentive. Some have even moved their families here. Some start to realize there is such a thing as "FACTS", and it influences their lives.
I realize there is a silent minority in the "red zones". I was there 3 years ago. They know who not to disturb when convinced by the illusion of denial.
The RWNJ's are trying so hard to stoke the crazy at this point, hoping one of us on "the left" gets driven to irrational acts, confirming their bias and martyrdom. Yes it worries me. Yes it embarrasses the hell out of our international image.
But Dog, now I've heard the conversion numerous times: "I made a terrible mistake. I can't get behind this crap." Keep the faith in reality. GOTV. The science based message has not gotten lost, just obscured, obfuscated, rehashed, branded "anti-patriotic" and still is the solution. I'm watching die-hard "christians" working aside Muslims and realizing they're not the monsters their mesmerizers had convinced them of.
A few of them finally figured out that buying the new SMART cars and hybrids they traded their monster truck in for was a sharp move.
Rachel says it almost daily, and we must maintain the mantra: "This is not normal".