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DavidThis interview of #DeeyahKhan by #MonteMader is one of the most important videos for #leftist or #progressive candidates or organizers campaigning to flip newly gerrymandered south seats towards the #Democrats to watch.
This is not what Deeyah and Monte discuss, but related: The Internet is not your confidant or therapist. You don't have to publish how you really feel for the world to read or hear. Vent off the record, ideally in a privileged context. Where the deceived can hear or year, tailor your response to effective relationship outcomes, prioritizing the strategic results which can be attained through which. Instead of engaging in divide-and-conquer, call it out as the distraction and deception tactic it is.
When fellow voters merged into a cracked district parrot rhetoric they've been hearing from parents, pastors, teachers, politicians, pundits, and podcasters since before preschool age, rather than playing into divide-and-conquer by responding in kind, re-interpret their words based on what abuse led to them believing those lies.
Find anything to validate, even if only emotion, to co-regulate. Find any common ground, such as an economic difficulty, to relate. And other in the context of that connection, without using and of their cult's phobia-tied keywords and thus triggering thought-stopping clichés, reason in the language they use, relying on emotional narratives that parallel what matters most to them.
Ask and listen for concerns and interests, and filter responses for the valid parts. Distill false explanations to the underlying problem they purport to explain. Distill false solutions to the underlying problem they purport to solve. Connect valid problems materially affecting them to the public policy decisions causing those problems. Show how the scapegoating explanations are lies, as are the promises of solution by those actually causing the problem.
And most of all, limited only by necessity for immediate physical safety, always unconditionally humanize, even if unilaterally, even despite their dehumanization. Irrational beliefs cannot be built through reason, so they won't be broken through reason either. Bigotry, as a set of irrational beliefs, is only unlearned through experience.
Think: more bell hooks and Dr. Jennifer Eberhardt (mutual liberation and evidence-based problem solving), less Andrea Dworkin and Robin DiAngelo (essentialism and resentment). The former approaches are much less cathartic and produce more effective solutions. The latter approaches provide much more social media clout and, over the long term, ultimately exacerbate problems.
Evidence and outcomes must take precedence. Materially just public policy and enforcement must be prioritized over narcissistic supply for petty political celebrities and social media influencers.
Conversations like in the documentaries discussed in the interview below are beyond uncomfortable, but more important is that they are effective. If a feminist Muslim woman of colour can turn the leader of a neo-Nazi group against white supremacy, then any non-corpie Democrat political candidate or volunteer can affirm an ex-MAGA voter's concern about housing affordability.
Instead of insulting the ex-MAGA person for having been deceived, the candidate or volunteer can discuss how immigrant workers had been building homes, how private equity oligarchs are monopolizing homes, how the same Republicans who said they'd bring home prices down before the election then said they wanted to raise them even higher after the election, and how those same Republicans are on the take from those private equity oligarchs.
That might not win you lots of hearts and stars among your personal social media choir, but iterated enough times by enough candidates and volunteers, it may flip you enough votes to flip another racially gerrymandered seat.
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