A Roving Mind

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8. Bringing it closer to home helps a lot too.

Asking all these questions regarding their boss, or any boss. Ask them if their boss took money from the company and jeopardized it just for their own monetary gain, say to buy himself a boat or to get his wife and family a more expensive house with a swimming pool. How would they feel if their boss didn’t care about their family’s health needs. Especially if someone in the family needed care for permanent things like diabetes or a heart condition. Ask them how they would deal with their boss lying to them about things being better in the future if only they take a pay cut now. Would they do the equivalent of impeaching that boss?

Everything Trump and the Republicans do is something they can personally relate to in their private lives if their boss did it. You can do that about school shootings or drugs or financial issues, especially if someone is benefitting while they struggle.

When your reality extends only as far as your immediate needs then the examples have to be drawn from their reality. No lofty ideas penetrate such realities.