It’s only been one week. I’m not the one fighting that fight, but I’ll check in on it

I dunno man, when you actually sat down and talked to him he seemed to really understand what was going on. He doesn’t like the tax laws, the tarrifs, the health crisis. He doesn’t like them at all, he just didn’t realize that the powers that be were manipulating the media he saw and information he received to make it seem like those were problems they would solve instead of cause.

He didn’t like listening to the guy that got angry and told him “Covid almost killed me!” But he did enjoy listening to the guy that befriended him and then started subtly bringing up issues with all the new legislation

Trumper will never…

Trumper human beings. They make mistakes and have bad opinions. Last week I met a Trumper who argued for an hour about how Covid wasn’t real. This week he was talking about civil war because he has realized what the administration is doing to him and people he cares about.

Never forget that our enemies are people. While they may not deserve your compassion, if you give it anyway, they will learn to see that they can deserve it and would like to. Treat them as individuals, not an out group

We’re not fighting “conservatives” or “fascism” or the likes. It’s what we say all the time, but we’re fighting people.

So much can be done for people by being gentler than they deserve. Thus were the teachings of so many great voices throughout history, but we’ve forgotten them. The black rights movement, women suffrage? There were violent showings of force, but please remember how much the non-violent ones impacted the world before being self-defeating