Zak Stein on political speech

Starting around 21:20 Zak talks about how social media has trained us to communicate strategically, i.e. coercive to an agenda instead of for mutual understanding. While I appreciate his analysis that the latter is the ideal we should strive for, given the former is rampant and the ground on which political battles are waged and won, I have based my own approach on such strategic communication. I don't see how mutual understanding can be reached with Twitler and his fascists, nor with the majority of the current Repugnantan Party (strategic insults) who support that fascism, so I fight the war strategically on that ground.

However, there are increasingly more principled Republicans who also see Twit's fascism and how it's destroyed their once proud Party which now enables him. They are doing a great job at articulating both the negatives of Twit and the positives of their core values that have been degraded by him and the Party enablers. I certainly can find ground for mutual understanding with them to hopefully return our politics to some semblance of open debate and mutual understanding.

But the first order of business for me is defeating that fascism and whatever that takes down and dirty in the trenches of strategic framing. I know and understand how those who favor the ideal of mutual understanding can interpret what I'm doing as cancel culture. And I agree: I want to cancel fascism at the ballot box, for if it continues we may lose the right of that ballot box.