I think not.
Posted on 07/05/2017 11:07:58 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The Better Angels organization (better-angels.org) is currently seeking Trump supporters to join non-Trump supporters for a weekend of facilitated conversation, refreshments, music and fellowship as part of its “One America” National Bus Tour. The project, which will take place in Ithaca (venue TBA) the weekend of Friday, July 14 and Saturday, July 15, seeks to help bridge the divide between citizens on the political left and right.
“It is necessary that we have an equal number of ‘red’ Americans and ‘blue’ Americans participate in the gathering and so far our ‘blue’ numbers are too high.” said Dana LaCroix, one of the project’s organizers. “In our efforts to reach out to Donald Trump supporters we’ve found that many are reluctant to participate for fear of being attacked or criticized for their views. But the goal of the One America workshop is that everyone who attends should leave the workshop feeling they’ve been heard, regardless of what their standpoint on any issue may be. We are interested in conversation, not conversion,” said LaCroix.
Keith Johnson, a Republican voter and Trump supporter who participated in the One America workshop in Southwestern Ohio said, “If you did 20,000 of these across the nation, you would change the world because people are talking to people!”
The goals of the project according to the Better Angels organization are “to better understand the experiences, feelings, and beliefs of those on the other side of the political divide; to see if there are areas of commonality in addition to differences; and learning something that might be helpful to others in our community and the nation.”
The workshop is organized by area residents and moderated by David Blankenhorn, president of Better Angels, and Bill Doherty, senior fellow with Better Angels and family therapist and professor at the University of Minnesota. The weekend will end with a pot-luck dinner and live music. Participants will receive modest compensation as a thank you for their time.
Interested individuals please contact Dana LaCroix at BetterAngels@twcny.rr.com or 607-238-7279.
Cue Admiral Ackbar...
Oh man you missed an opportunity at an epic screen name. I will Freepmail it.
Re: these morons, just send them my tag line.
I think not.
OK inventory:
Cabin Fever and Plaid man are flamers
Mr Jazz Hands and Mr Maroon shirt as well.
V girl is a hippy.
The two guys with their thumbs up just pulled them out of each others rectums.
Let me not spoil it all for you. Read the rest of them.
It’s a trap!
I think I’d rather have a double root canal.
Good God, you couldn’t pay me enough to sit through that ordeal. “Facilitated” conversation means they talk, you listen. And it will be stuff you’ve heard a thousand times before. Oh, and that score will be kept and guess what? You lost the second you sat down. Been there, done that.
I am guessing that this is just an attempt by the left to try and peel some support from the President.
I am thinking most of us “older” freepers gave up on trying to reason with libtards years ago. You simply cannot have a rational discussion with irrational people. Illogical. Does not compute.
The words “Delphi Technique” come to mind when I hear “facilitated conversation”.
And I suppose it is probably in one of Dante’s lower circles of Hell in which one is forced to ask roomfuls of libtards, “...and how did that make you feel?”
+1
I used to be a five alarm, flaming lib. I think there are two kinds: ignorants and ideologues. I was one of the former. If the libs in this bunch are the latter, then this particular confab in Ithaca is probably research to see if there’s a way to get to Rep. Reed’s voters.
I think I’d rather set my hair on fire than listen to a libtard. I’ve heard enough libs yap yap yap their craziness over the last 8 years. Can’t listen no more.
This event is in Ithaca, NY, the liberal black hole of the entire Upstate.
No, thanks. Might as well be a Jew in a stadium full of muzzies.
BUMP!
“non-Trump supporters”? Now there’s a non-sense term.
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