Our Shared Future – “People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.” (Theodore Roosevelt) We need to build relationships with swing voters if we are to help them feel connected to our shared values and desire to make a better world. Here’s my effort to lay out the details for how to do it: Get the concept paper here or view a short Powerpoint presentation on our platform for managing the voter lists, text messages, phone calls and postcards in conjunction with Google Voice.
For the most part, I believe that Americans need to focus less on the game of politics and more on developing the inner capacity we need to be better human beings and citizens if the United States is to become a just, thriving, and sustainable democracy. However, this election is different.
I believe that Trump is, in his few short years in office, undercutting the foundation of democracy. If we reelect him, our country seems likely to become a hollow a shell of democracy like we see in Russia, for example.
Trump’s bullying, lying, and goading on of violent allies bears close resemblance to what we see around the globe from other authoritarian leaders.
In short, he needs to be defeated in November. If Democrats (or Independents or Republicans) recognize the danger of the present moment, I hope they will also recognize the need for ordinary people to step up, get out of their comfort zones, and make a commitment to get involved on a daily or regular basis leading up to the election. If all those who oppose him would spend, say, an hour a day or every other day phonebanking, textbanking, or writing postcards or letters to undecided voters or voters with weak commitments to vote, Trump’s defeat would be far more likely — even with his likely efforts to make voting difficult for Democratic areas and for those voting by mail.