The thing is, this polarization didn’t start with covid or the phony vaxxes, and it isn’t going to end with them. Winning hearts and minds, to use a very shopworn phrase, is going to come very hard, probably not in the lifetime of many of us (certainly not my own) and it isn’t going to happen as a result of blindly extending an olive bra…
The thing is, this polarization didn’t start with covid or the phony vaxxes, and it isn’t going to end with them. Winning hearts and minds, to use a very shopworn phrase, is going to come very hard, probably not in the lifetime of many of us (certainly not my own) and it isn’t going to happen as a result of blindly extending an olive branch or memory-holing atrocities committed against the innocent.
I do understand your feelings, I have them too. But, you will never convert them all. A third of the population are lost, but the middle third is up for grabs. That middle group onside adds up to a majority. History has shown this "third" dynamic repeatedly, and the good news is that truth flows quicker and easier than at any other time in history. You don't need a printing press to print a broadside and pony express riders. So yes, I do have hope. Maybe it is a false hope, but it is mentally and physically healthier for me to live that way than to be fatalistic and say f*ck it. By the way, I do sleep better knowing Karma exists.
The thing is, this polarization didn’t start with covid or the phony vaxxes, and it isn’t going to end with them. Winning hearts and minds, to use a very shopworn phrase, is going to come very hard, probably not in the lifetime of many of us (certainly not my own) and it isn’t going to happen as a result of blindly extending an olive branch or memory-holing atrocities committed against the innocent.
I do understand your feelings, I have them too. But, you will never convert them all. A third of the population are lost, but the middle third is up for grabs. That middle group onside adds up to a majority. History has shown this "third" dynamic repeatedly, and the good news is that truth flows quicker and easier than at any other time in history. You don't need a printing press to print a broadside and pony express riders. So yes, I do have hope. Maybe it is a false hope, but it is mentally and physically healthier for me to live that way than to be fatalistic and say f*ck it. By the way, I do sleep better knowing Karma exists.
I feel the same way.