This is a brilliant distillation that we have needed for so long. Thank you, Antonia Scatton, for incredibly useful framing of the whole case against MAGA!
It's always better to describe the positive vision if you can! Let me try it: "Freedom from gun violence" >> "Freedom to live in safe neighborhoods." Yup! Much better!
I also find it productive to reframe their "freedom" as "license" as in "a permission slip from the state to be excused from the consequences of your actions" Much of what they claim to be freedom has to do with the "freedom to" make money from their property and practice their religion. I would reframe that as license as in "permission to exploit" and "a free pass to discriminate."
Excellent summary! Thank you!
That "Convince-Yourself-To-Vote" GOTV effort in NC is a good one! Their technique appears to be Motivational Interviewing: https://medium.com/progressively-speaking/a-quick-and-easy-way-to-facilitate-political-opinion-change-220c03587cd8
This is a brilliant distillation that we have needed for so long. Thank you, Antonia Scatton, for incredibly useful framing of the whole case against MAGA!
Love this! Thanks for writing and sharing.
It's always better to describe the positive vision if you can! Let me try it: "Freedom from gun violence" >> "Freedom to live in safe neighborhoods." Yup! Much better!
I also find it productive to reframe their "freedom" as "license" as in "a permission slip from the state to be excused from the consequences of your actions" Much of what they claim to be freedom has to do with the "freedom to" make money from their property and practice their religion. I would reframe that as license as in "permission to exploit" and "a free pass to discriminate."