The lesson I draw from all the absolutely accurate facts that Comrade Richard presents is that there is an IDEOLOGICAL and FACTUAL battle that must be joined --- the "zombies" walking around without masks who believe the pandemic is a hoax need to have the FACTS of the pandemic brought home over and over again --- people are dying of the pandemic all over the country --- and there are SCORES of examples of people who say, just before they die --- "I didn't realize it was so serious ...."
I believe there is a great possibillity to puncture the balloons of the Trumpies with repetition over and over again of the facts --- Perhaps the most significant example of such a sea change in ideology is the acceptance of Gay People as full humans --- that ultimately the acceptance of Gay marriage --- this happened because people who had voted against gay marriage in droves in 2004 (less than 20 years ago) suddenly discovered that they had gay friends and relatives --- Discovering that they have relatives who caught COVID and that the deaths fromCOVID had been caused by Trump --- that the Republicans and Trump brainwashees were a DEATH CULT --- this will be a powerful way to puncture the Trump balloon -- OF COURSE this will not be easy --- it fact it may be too difficult to succeed . But I have always been a firm believer that even the prospect of certain defeat should not stop us from fighting --- (I am reading the biography of John Lewis by JON MEACHEM and there were at least two times when Lewis was almost certain he was about to be killed --- but he remained serene in this believe that no matter what happened to him, others would carry on after him ....) On Sat, Dec 26, 2020 at 6:21 PM Richard Modiano <[email protected]> wrote: > > And while we have dodged the bullet of a Trump coup, the last month if not > the last four years has revealed a United States that *could *slip into > authoritarian rule much easier than most of us previously thought. > > > And worse of all, there is a significant shift in popular consciousness > after four years of this ghastly regime. We now have tens of millions of > Americans who Trump has liberated from any notion of a social contract or > any commitment to anything bigger than themselves. For proof of that > statement, take a look out your window at the zombies walking around > without masks. Or those who still proclaim the pandemic a hoax. > ------------------------------ > . > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#4865): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/4865 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/79226820/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
