This is exactly the sort of situation that people, like myself, assumed would come to pass and planned for.
BACKGROUND
I grew up in a family that straddled the line of poverty my entire childhood. Like many kids in a similar socioeconomic background, we moved around A LOT. My parents did their best to insulate me from the realities of this situation, and as a kid, I bought that hook line and sinker. We’d go stay at Aunt Jenny’s for a month or two because “our new house isn’t ready for us to move in yet”. We moved in with my grandparents for almost a year because “it takes a long time to buy a house” (which by the way we lost less than a couple years later).
If I’m being honest, it wasn’t until I was well into my 20s before it dawned on me how housing insecure things were when I was growing up. I was completely under my parents’ spell, took what they said as the full truth, and really didn’t have a lot of reason to question or challenge that. Literally just lived most of my life thinking / assuming that most people move around all the time, and that it can takes months between moves before you can move into your new place.
MESSAGE
The thing to keep in mind is that, hate it as you might, this is a situation where those of us in the USA who genuinely want positive, progressive change and are actually being realistic about how to get there are going to have to be gracious and understanding.
On an individual level, you might know one of these young Trump voters, and absolutely, they may just be a terrible shit. The end. But the reality is, many of these young people aren’t and in fact they are like most young people of a certain age and socioeconomic background – indoctrinated to this bullshit from a young age and still under the spell of their parents and guardians. They can wake up, they can come to the realization that they’ve been indoctrinated, and they can grow from that.
But all this hostility, negativity, threats of punishment, etc – that does nothing good, and in fact, at times it can have the exact opposite response of what we, presumably, all hope for.
Well said. The commonality of the common person is something we each have to accept. What we don’t have to accept is the manufactured division and anger. There are indeed more concrete divisions, already available for noticing
This is exactly the sort of situation that people, like myself, assumed would come to pass and planned for.
BACKGROUND
I grew up in a family that straddled the line of poverty my entire childhood. Like many kids in a similar socioeconomic background, we moved around A LOT. My parents did their best to insulate me from the realities of this situation, and as a kid, I bought that hook line and sinker. We’d go stay at Aunt Jenny’s for a month or two because “our new house isn’t ready for us to move in yet”. We moved in with my grandparents for almost a year because “it takes a long time to buy a house” (which by the way we lost less than a couple years later).
If I’m being honest, it wasn’t until I was well into my 20s before it dawned on me how housing insecure things were when I was growing up. I was completely under my parents’ spell, took what they said as the full truth, and really didn’t have a lot of reason to question or challenge that. Literally just lived most of my life thinking / assuming that most people move around all the time, and that it can takes months between moves before you can move into your new place.
MESSAGE
The thing to keep in mind is that, hate it as you might, this is a situation where those of us in the USA who genuinely want positive, progressive change and are actually being realistic about how to get there are going to have to be gracious and understanding.
On an individual level, you might know one of these young Trump voters, and absolutely, they may just be a terrible shit. The end. But the reality is, many of these young people aren’t and in fact they are like most young people of a certain age and socioeconomic background – indoctrinated to this bullshit from a young age and still under the spell of their parents and guardians. They can wake up, they can come to the realization that they’ve been indoctrinated, and they can grow from that.
But all this hostility, negativity, threats of punishment, etc – that does nothing good, and in fact, at times it can have the exact opposite response of what we, presumably, all hope for.
Well said. The commonality of the common person is something we each have to accept. What we don’t have to accept is the manufactured division and anger. There are indeed more concrete divisions, already available for noticing