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In reply to the discussion: How about a Voters' Revolution? [View all]MineralMan
(151,949 posts)Instead, I'd be explaining why their vote could change everything. I've been convincing unregistered people to register and vote for many years. I don't tell them anything. I ask them what changes they'd like to see. When they tell me, I help them understand how to accomplish those changes. I talk to them, not at them.
It's all in the presentation, really.
Lots of people are in this thread telling me that what I'm suggesting won't work. I've seen it work, on a small scale. I'll tell you what doesn't work, and that's doing the same thing we've been doing. Discussing change among like-thinking people doesn't work, either. What works is talking to the people you want to go to the polls, listening to their issues and concerns and giving them reasons to do so. I learned how to do that years afo from a veteran GOTV worker who has been dead now for over 20 years. She showed me how to get people to register and convince them to go to the polls and vote for people who could help them.
It's a hands on thing, and it doesn't happen on the Internet. It happens in neighborhoods and precincts when people who are willing to listen to people help them become voters.