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THIS. All the takes making sweeping judgements about groups of people based on their votes in this election are useless at best and harmful at worst. Even if we could draw conclusions about people in this moment, they wouldn't actually tell us anything about what's possible. https://twitter.com/ramsincanon/status/1324033542070808576
This is why in union organizing (and a workplace is a good microcosm of the country, since workers can be very different/are only united by being in the same place) we never assume we know if folks will support the union or take action, and we organize around issues not ideas.
Take a Trump supporter who is worried about their healthcare as an example (since millions are). He might never talk to a liberal coworker about politics, but more often than not he’ll fight alongside one if it means getting healthcare.
Beyond that though, he might be politically inclined to support bosses making as much money as they can, but in fighting for healthcare and *experiencing* the opposition from his boss, he’ll start seeing the boss and their wealth as coming at the expense of his family’s health.
The issue of healthcare, because it impacts him personally, will start to redefine the side this worker imagines he’s on.
Suddenly the boss’s casual sexism starts to seem like a bigger deal, maybe he doesn’t laugh along anymore, because those coworkers are on his side now.
That doesn’t justify his accepting it before, or inaction now, but it’s a change that no consultant dreamed up training or liberal scolding would produce. It's also a change that has the potential to keep on growing if this worker keeps experiencing these connections.
Raising consciousness and building solidarity begin with mobilizing people's self-interest and giving them the experience of shared struggle--not with slogans, and not even with education (how many Very Woke white liberals will never actually show up for Black folks?)
