I saw this on YouTube and watched it sort of like a train wreck, thinking I should look away yet unwillingly drawn to keep watching. And it was actually pretty good. Considering we have had much discussion here about reaching out to *rump voters, I thought others also might find this discussion interesting about how to convert neo-Nazis. The similarities between the two groups, of course, are obvious.
He basically says that they start out as the marginalized, the rejected, the lonely, and so are ripe for recruitment: 18:10-end:
It’s our disconnection from each other. Hatred is born of ignorance, fear is its father and isolation is its mother. When we don’t understand something, we tend to be afraid of it, and if we keep ourselves from it, that fear grows and sometimes it turns into hatred.
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I listen very closely…. They became extremists because they wanted to belong, not because of ideology or dogma…. What brought them out was receiving compassion from the people they least deserved it from, when they least deserved it.
So I would like to leave you with a challenge: Go out there today, tomorrow, hopefully every day. Find somebody who you think is undeserving of your compassion and give it to them. Because I guarantee you, they are the ones who need it the most.
I thought a message to reach out with compassion was a good topic for a Sunday morning.
For those who consistently say, “Never mind them, excite our base, reliable minority voters!” I wanted to present a good video on that instead. But I could not find a single YouTube video on how Democrats could better attract minorities. All those videos were about Reptublicans! Like this one:
Which might as well be called how NOT to attract minority voters, as *rump famously says: 0:55-1:25:
You’re living in poverty, your schools are no good, you have no jobs, 58% of your youth is unemployed. What the hell do you have to lose? And at the end of 4 years, I guarantee you that I will get over 95% of the African American vote. I promise you.
Yeah. Pretty sure that will not be happening.
Please consider this an open thread. Discuss either video or whatever else is on your minds. Enjoy?