We need to get the word out to more cis people. Most are busy keeping up with paying bills and only pick up sound bites or negative information.

We need a marketing campaign to counter the hateful messages spreading in social media.

We must show how anti-abortion, anti-trans, anti-education, anti-BIPOC, and other fascistic efforts are interrelated and designed to desensitize us to cruelty.

All while making it easy to remember and distilled into short sound bites.

Absolutely. It's amazing though - this year we had billboards, media pieces, radio ads, op-eds, full page ads in the Star. And I think that stuff IS effective.

I just think there's a certain kinda liberal who instinctively, culturally, resists the idea that hate is real and dangerous.

They seem to think people who mean harm must just be confused or badly educated.

Bless their hearts, but it's so frustrating.

Agreed. It’s a form of denial. And I get it; denial can be an important =temporary= survival measure, psychologically. But when we cling to it in the face of others’ suffering, it becomes toxic and destructive.

I get it too! I'm kindof a Pollyanna who assumes the best of people most times. It feels like just this element of human nature that is so hard to get over.

I don't want to join the doom train (I still think we're gonna win the public opinion battle). But those moments where you talk to folks just really makes it hit home that not everyone sees this thing with the same eyes.

I feel like we need a mental health/ psychotherapy mobilization on the scale of the New Deal, quite honestly.