I've been tweeting a lot recently, mostly about the Sanders Clinton primary. There is a lot of passion on both sides. Clinton supporters attack Bernie AND his supporters. Bernie supporters attack Clinton and her supporters. I will often tweet a link to an article or a graphic which shows Hillary Clinton in a negative light to the most popular hashtag for Hillary supporters-- #ImWithHer as well as to the most popular Bernie hashtag #feelthebern.
But I also find articles or tweets to tweet or retweet that I think both Hillary and Sanders supporters will agree on.
There are plenty of issues. Human rights, racism, equality, climate change, anti-bigotry, peace, to name a few.
In the past I might have used the #P2 hashtag, which some use for progressives, a counterpart to the #TCOT top conservatives on twitter hashtag. But I think the hashtags used by Bernie and Hillary supporters are far better for reaching progressives and liberals (Yes, I tend to see Bernie supporters as progressive and Hillary's supporters as more moderate liberals.)
So I've started tweeting using the hashtag ##canweagree along with Hillary and Bernie supporter hashtags when I tweet messages or links that I think are liberal/progressive and not leaning towards one candidate or the other.
I'm writing this article with the hopes that the #CanWeAgree hashtag will be used to find common ground with people who are otherwise on opposite sides of this heated primary.
Yes, we are passionate about our candidate. But we are also passionate about important issues that matter. Let's get together on them and make change happen.
Rob Kall is an award winning journalist, inventor, software architect,
connector and visionary. His work and his writing have been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, CNN, ABC, the HuffingtonPost, Success, Discover and other media.
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He is the author of The Bottom-up Revolution; Mastering the Emerging World of Connectivity
He's given talks and workshops to Fortune
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first-of-their-kind conferences in Positive Psychology, Brain Science and
Story. He hosts some of the world's smartest, most interesting and powerful
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Rob Kall has spent his adult life as an awakener and empowerer-- first in the field of biofeedback, inventing products, developing software and a music recording label, MuPsych, within the company he founded in 1978-- Futurehealth, and founding, organizing and running 3 conferences: Winter Brain, on Neurofeedback and consciousness, Optimal Functioning and Positive Psychology (a pioneer in the field of Positive Psychology, first presenting workshops on it in 1985) and Storycon Summit Meeting on the Art Science and Application of Story-- each the first of their kind. Then, when he found the process of raising people's consciousness (more...)
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