My son assured me his girlfriend voted ЁЯЩД I'm going to try and tell them (someone on Substack said this) when they don't vote then the other guy's vote counts twice?
Take the smart ones. The ones who ought to know better. The ones who would have recoiled against any of the stuff Trump does on a daily basis if it was done by a Democrat. Strap them in a chair. Hold their eyelids open and just make them watch and listen to their chosen candidate. Pick a speech. Any speech. (My recommendation would be the "frankly we did win this election" speech, but any will do.) Repeat until they come around.
I am highly pessimistic of the prospect of injecting reality into them.
The urgent task to me is to awaken the oblivious to the danger and rally them to confront it. It is urgent that the decent and sensible of all political leanings and none at all тАУ the Bulwark community writ large тАУ come together to do this.
The Open Letter in Defense of Democracy was a wonderful document.
Because they're influencing millions of other people to follow a lunatic and turn our government into a private retribution arm.
We need to pay attention to them. We need to engage them and inject some reality into them, however we can.
I can't get my millennial kids to vote. I just keep on them and they genuinely just don't care. ЁЯТФ
My wife keeps pushing our son to register. I think he will before November of 24, but I'm not betting the farm on him actually voting.
My son assured me his girlfriend voted ЁЯЩД I'm going to try and tell them (someone on Substack said this) when they don't vote then the other guy's vote counts twice?
You could go full Clockwork Orange on them and I donтАЩt think you could inject reality into them
If I was in charge, that would happen.
Take the smart ones. The ones who ought to know better. The ones who would have recoiled against any of the stuff Trump does on a daily basis if it was done by a Democrat. Strap them in a chair. Hold their eyelids open and just make them watch and listen to their chosen candidate. Pick a speech. Any speech. (My recommendation would be the "frankly we did win this election" speech, but any will do.) Repeat until they come around.
The real question is how many of them there really are and where are they electorally?
I am highly pessimistic of the prospect of injecting reality into them.
The urgent task to me is to awaken the oblivious to the danger and rally them to confront it. It is urgent that the decent and sensible of all political leanings and none at all тАУ the Bulwark community writ large тАУ come together to do this.
The Open Letter in Defense of Democracy was a wonderful document.
We need more like it, insistent and relentless.
https://www.thebulwark.com/an-open-letter-in-defense-of-democracy/
ThatтАЩs a tall order. IтАЩve tried. It wasnтАЩt family. It was futile and didnтАЩt end well.