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cilla4progress

(26,526 posts)
14. Yes, it our children and their children
Tue Dec 13, 2016, 11:20 AM
Dec 2016

I hurt for.

Please share with me...how are you going to implement the one heart / one mind at a time strategy? I'm sorry, but, I just don't think it will succeed, not that it's not worth the effort. Maybe this "Trump voter turned liberal" appeared to turn in that moment on that program, but I don't believe it will hold.

What do I think WILL succeed? Perhaps only a hard lesson learned. Perhaps only living through the damaging consequences of their vote and views. Shame though that they are taking the rest of us down with them. No matter what, this country is changing. Before long whites will be in the minority. The demographic shift that is coming may well be our renaissance. Time for old white people to lose their stranglehod.

I don't recall the details of the social study that I learned about many years ago in college, but the essence was that people tend to listen to media and opinions that reinforce their own. It is extremely difficult if even possible to change entrenched attitudes of racism, misogyny, and xenophobia.

As I say, your way of solving the problem, mine, whosever...even those who can't deal and turn inward.. For me the essence is to support one another and strengthen our bonds in this very dark time. Love breeds love.

I will also admit that during Shrub's administration our family force-fed The West Wing. President Bartlet WAS our President. If this "disaster" actually ascends to the Presidency, I expect we will find another alternate reality to live in.

That's all I have to say on this subject.

Thanks.

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