Dear Friends,
It seems to me, elitists need factionalization, while populists seek unity. We must to reach out to our “progressive” friends, neighbors and blood kin, to guide them back from the cult’s brainwashing. In this endeavor, we have to be compassionate, empathic and follow basic rules of persuasion. All of our futures are at stake. Progressives know in their hearts something is wrong with their faction, it’s gone wrong somewhere, but they’re not allowed to mention it. First get them to admit to themselves, manipulating kids to self harm, lying, and arbitrary rule, are bad things. Once they admit these truths to themselves their hearts will follow. No one wants to stand for evil everyone wants to stand with good. They have to justify the evil as good, once that justification is ruined, so is the evil belief.
Most progressives have a bad feeling in their gut, but their hate of haters, Trump, republicans, fascists, white supremacists, colonizers, imperialists, bigots, etc… keep them from exploring it. Hate is an exceptionally powerful motivator of men. That’s why Biden just gave a speech that was pure demagoguery. To enhance and consolidate the hate. Get people cheering the jailing of citizens for demanding election integrity… for hundreds of years! Now that’s vindictive prosecution! Progressives have stood for the right to protest forever. Don’t think many of them don’t see this development as a worrying turn of events. If a conservative can be jailed for decades, for their belief in election integrity, imagine the prison sentences that could be handed down to a progressive rioter. The precedent is set.
Whenever anyone changes their minds about anything, even a small thing, it’s a death. We feel it as a loss, that’s why we’re so loathe to change our minds. Moreover, we have to rejigger our worldview, which is work, to make a new worldview so the new information is compatible with it. Ignoring information, to protect a worldview, is as foolish as it is progressive. The lock the elite use to keep our minds closed is factionalization. We’re supposed to hate them and they’re supposed to hate us. But that’s the elite’s paradigm… not ours. It’s hard not to be angry when a progressive spouts nonsense about drag queen story hour being good for kids. Pointing out, if drag queen is good for Christian kids, then the Holy Bible might be good for atheist kids, like I do… only engenders more hate.
Negotiation Mastery has a great deal to say about convincing people. Tactical empathy, mirroring, getting a “that’s right,” an accusation audit, and labeling are important tactics to help a progressive understand, how they need to update their worldview. Believe it or not, screaming in someone’s face calling them an idiot, is a sub optimal path to changing their mind. Progressives are human beings, deluded to be sure, but human nonetheless. They want a better future but their elitist masters don’t. No matter how they contort themselves to conform, to a nonconforming world, they never really fit. Open the door to their minds with tactical empathy, and your saving them from themselves, and their programming. Rest assured, those who do see the light, will be ardent allies.
The elite need to keep us factionalized. It’s imperative. Else we would come together and solve the world’s problems. Problems the elite have spent decades creating, to push us to their favored solutions. Your average Democrat, Labor, Green, etc… doesn’t want the world to end, they want to preserve it. Their not elitists at heart, their leaders are. Most progressives are populists. Expose their leaders as the elitist corporatists they are. Teach them what fascism actually is, corporatism, as Mussolini and Goebbels defined it. Use tactical empathy to reach them emotionally. We don’t have to convince all the Democrats, Greens, or Labor, but if we pick off a few, it’ll make the election fraud that much harder for the elite to pull off. Factionalization is their power, unity is ours… so unify. We can disagree later.
Sincerely,
John Pepin
