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Parent Post: How does someone run for office in todays time without selling out?
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carp30mnia
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3/12/2025, 4:29:12 PM
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Yeah, I'd prefer the 100% honest approach. But pretty frustrating that it's vastly out-rewarded by deception in our current government system tho. Agree with what you said about building a community. You're right that there should be more focus on that. But that also comes with a few roadblocks; technology has somewhat deteriorated in-person prosocial behaviors + I think it's downplayed how much priorities can polarize (as evident by political parties). How do you reconcile increasing differences amongst the population? Nowadays, there's far more identities/groups/labels to split into sub-groups around. I think people underestimate how much this leads to balkanization instead of unity. I worry that that we're not homogenous enough culturally and in values for a functional community to be anything bigger than local/neighborhood. (I'm sure that's by design: *can't have the peasants see each other as neighbors instead of rivals or they might rise up lol*). What's the best way to switch gears to finding common ground?
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seathesailor
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5/8/2025, 12:37:01 AM
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Not taking into account environment/setting on establishing common ground: There's two methods of communication to consider in general the visual and dialogue. Appearances do matter (for me I come across as different things to different people, and whether dressed in business casual, formal, casual, working clothes, or 6" of flowing black hair is going to make a difference in other's perception of you) their response to how you appear will preface what direction dialogue will start on. In dialogue as a rule of thumb for finding common ground try to avoid all the flash words that have been programmed into people's heads. You start a conversation by bitching about "those woke commies or conservative cucks" and you're going to exclude whatever civil discourse you could have had. Start with empathy for the person your talking to, ask questions about their day and their concerns. It's something that most politicians never do, cause they're opportunist parasite fucks. 😅 %%**However, it's something you can genuinely do as a community builder.**%%
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