Future Hope Column: Trump-Must-Go Outreach Is Essential

 

By Ted Glick

“Contact engenders more trust, more solidarity and more mutual kindness. It helps you see the world through other people’s eyes. (p. 358) . . . The thing we all need to remember is that those other folks are a lot like us. The angry voter venting on TV, the refugee in the statistics, the criminal in the mugshot: every one of them is a human being of flesh and blood, someone who in a different life might have been our friend, our family, our beloved. (p. 378) . . .Choose the path of compassion and you realize how little separates you from that stranger. Compassion takes you beyond yourself.” (p. 391)

-Humankind, A Hopeful History, by Rutger Bregman

How will we defeat the Trumpfascists and, ultimately, the military-corporate-fossil fuel-and more complex? Outreach to and the winning over of some Trump voters is an absolute essential.

Many of those voters are low income and working class, but many in that category are also infected with racist, sexist and heterosexist ideas, which Trump/MAGA, like hateful bigots before them going way back, has skillfully played upon to win their support.

How can a significant number of these people come to realize that their real interests lie not with the billionaire class which Trump represents but with the multi-racial, multi-gender working class, which is 2/3 or more of the total US population, and progressives generally?

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Ted Glick has been a progressive activist and organizer since 1968. He is the author of the recently published books, Burglar for Peace and 21st Century Revolution, both available at https://pmpress.org . More info can be found at https://tedglick.com.

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