Reply #11: kudos to you [View All]

[salin]

I honestly believe the only way to combat the spin and media repitition of the white house spin is by one on one conversations. We have to keep bringing these inconsistencies (eg news stories that contradict the image painted by the wh) to folks attention, and then subtly remind them of the ten other things that we had previously brought up. COming to the conclusion that we are being lied to - and that the system we have grown up respecting can actually be so damaging to the world - is very hard to do. Even worse for those who attend evangelical Christian churches in which ministers have started preaching politics from the pulpit - thus to their congregations somehow creating the belief that Jesus sanctions whatever Bush does. For these folks who buy the line, they also have to come to terms with their church and their minister also being complicit in the deciet. Those are hard things to accept.

I bet that your conversations have had a great deal to do with her being questioning or at least a little ill at ease with the war. Ill at ease/discomfort is just about the hardest place to move to from comfort/acceptance of bush/war - from there anyone of these stories will push from illatease to full awareness.

Be gentle - as it is bruising to come to that realization. I remember how hard it was for me, and I was inherently liberal and skeptical of the reagan/bush years. But nonetheless it felt too awful to believe that they would be capable of such things... (for me it was years later the october surprise... and a piece of information that came to me later that confirmed it. I was ready to be skeptical of the baby/incubators in KuWait. But that first awakening - ow it is hard.