Lynn Fredricks
Feb 25, 2017 · 1 min read

Being open and honest and employing empathy and logic to inform and persuade are laudable. But then you have this describing your movement:

“The stories and voices of people resisting the Republican agenda of #racism, #authoritarianism, and #corruption”

These hashtag evils are not specific to Republicans, but to varying degrees, members of the human race. The people your document targets aren’t the Republicans but the people you want to persuade Trump supporters. You are supporting a framing of Trump supporters in a way that Trump supporters are specifically sensitized against. The act of mobilization translates to conspiracy in the minds of the many you’d like to persuade.

There really aren’t shortcuts to getting people to make informed decisions. The state of the union is what it is today because of a failure to educate and communicate. The rhetoric of ‘mobilization’ and ‘resisting’ is attractive to some but it is not transformative. It will merely make some feel better and yet also widen the divide.

Lynn Fredricks

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