I have a friend who is normally very critical of the current administration. We were talking about the disaster in NO last night. I told him some of the facts, including the info about the buses. His eyes got big and he said, "Really? Wow!" I think that we can do a lot to defend the administration in this situation - you know, the talk around the water cooler and coffee machine-kind of talk?" We did a lot in the last election - I talk to lots of people during the week. Information, information, information. Doesn't seem like to helps much, but if each one of us talks to 1-2 people a day, everyday, and sets them straight and they talk to 1-2 people and convey that info, well, I think it's called a grass-roots effort.
Remember the movie, "Pay It Forward?" Let's just get busy.
"Doesn't seem like to helps much, but if each one of us talks to 1-2 people a day, everyday, and sets them straight and they talk to 1-2 people and convey that info, well, I think it's called a grass-roots effort.
Remember the movie, "Pay It Forward?" Let's just get busy."
I talked to MY two, yesterday. I went on a hike for an MD Fundraiser with a friend who has MD. (It took us 4 hours to go 6 miles, but he did it!) Two of the women walking with us were Bush-basing about Katrina, and I did EXACTLY as you did, explaining about how it was the State's responsibility to have evacuated all the people it could have, the parking lots FILLED with flooded, unused school buses, etc.
They, too, were amazed at this information, as everything they knew about the hurricane came from their daily spoon feedings by the MSM.
It does work, People! You may not convert hard leftists in your converstaions as they're too out of touch with reality to begin with, but just presenting people with the FACTS results in some pretty amazing conversations with the saner opposition. :)