Someone who clearly knows how I think sent me this article – The Facts Just Aren’t Getting Through today from The Atlantic. Thanks to Anne Applebaum for some great ideas!
If you read it through my eyes, always looking for ways to convert others to the Universal Healthcare (#UHC) Team, several things stand out:
- The appeal to patriotism: UHC should be indivisible with patriotism of the best kind!
- A friend of mine is very fond of Danielle Allen’s book, Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality and wants to use its themes for UHC advocacy: It is a progressive re-reading of the Declaration of Independence, emphasizing the true meanings of freedom and equality.
- We the People: A Progressive Reading of the Constitution for the Twenty-First Century by Chemerinsky inspires similar patriotism in a progressive vein.
- The Republican Voters against Trump ads use members of their own tribe to express disillusion.
- There are many disillusioned members of the Medical Industrial Complex.
- We need to start identifying them in preparation for a UHC campaign using their insights.
- Like Wendell Potter, they can provide perspective for the currently trapped.
- There is value in helping the disaffected realize that they can find community among others who believe like them, even as they separate from another ideological community.
- “You won’t be left alone!”
- There are many others like you disillusioned and angry at a system that mistreats so many of our fellow citizens.
- Leaving a community that believes that the suffering and dying of our disadvantaged is just part of the “American Way,” should be easy. They just need a new community. Us.
- Humor melts fear.
- Having been an intensivist most of my career and then a hospice doc, I can tell you that medical humor can be very dark.
- We in the medical community might need some guidance in channeling our humor in a more gentle way…
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