@dgar @clintruin

Answer:
You tell them about:
- hyper-localism
- Community Land Trusts
- the CEDR (Center for Environment and Democracy) (maybe), and how it was started by the cofounder of also the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (https://celdf.org ), whose first client was a rural community of Republican and conservative hog-farmers in Pennsylvania who were getting screwed over by big corporation moving in “legally” and signed off on by the State Ag dept

@silentashes @dgar
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So do we do all this before or after we unplug them
(somehow) from Fox "News", OAN, Newsmax, Rebel News, The Daily Caller, Epoch Times, Infowars, the New York Post, Brietbart, The Blaze, The Daily Wire and the rest of the "Conservative" (read fascist) news sites?

"...Strong believer that most polarization (“Xyz is ruining abc/everything!”) stems from deliberate manipulation & distractions, on many fronts..."

I completely agree. Therefore...exit counseling?

@clintruin @dgar

For me,
I find that these issues around local govt / local democracy/ etc
are so universal
and so underrepresented / misrepresented in the media
…

it’s actually not hard.

Instead of arguing over ‘tax policies’
(or whatever political football),

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@clintruin @dgar
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I simply acknowledge, validate/empathize (not the same as agreeing, but i dont tell them that),

then divert & redirect the focus to entirely different areas of strategy
— which offer more space to seek common-ground.

Community Land Trusts are *usually* a good approach (for now),
at least if it’s new-to-them-idea.

https://proudground.org is a good example; appeals to anyone who cares about affordable housing.

I don’t bother with the poli bs.