"Did you know that the high school ran out of money and can't afford to buy new text books? Probably doesn't matter. My son can't afford college anyway."
"Your garden looks great! You're very smart. Who knows what they put in our food these days. Did you know one out of every three Americans now gets cancer?"
"My nephew got killed in Afghanistan. He was only 20 years-old. Why are we fighting in Afghanistan? Will these wars ever end?"
It's just a matter of looking at who you're talking to, sensing what is important, finding some common ground, then both sharing the frustration and acknowledging the need to do something about solving the problems.
Listening . . . common sense . . . and basic intuition go a long ways.
Anyone reading this is intelligent and caring. Otherwise, why would you be reading this? Why would you have made it this far in this article? You could be watching TV, a movie from Netflix, or updating your Facebook page.
I know you care. I also know that -- again if the percentages above are anywhere close to accurate -- you personally have been slapped around and brutalized by the insensitivity and inaction of our elected representatives.
Everyone wants the mess to be cleaned up. Everyone wants life to start looking up again for the vast majority of Americans who have been marginalized and ignored for too long.
So just talk. Talk and listen.
Maybe people won't talk politics. But once the floodgate is open, people will talk about what's hurting them, what's now holding them back, how they are getting screwed by the system and those who have looted the country and run America into the ground, how they had wonderful dreams and hopes for their children which have been betrayed, how the American Dream is being destroyed.
They will talk. You will listen. Then you will propose something very simple.
That something will be introduced in Part IV of this series.
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