The Art of Listening

[Bengalzona]

(07-30-2019, 12:02 AM)GMDino Wrote: Then he goes out and votes for Trump because of the immigrants and Hillary killing all those people.

Great talk!  LOL!

Did you ever think he was not going to vote for Trump? Did you think one conversation would change everything?

That doesn't seem realistic to me.


And since we are discussing Trump, I talked in depth with a lot of my friends who voted for him. Almost to a person, they stated the same things:
1) They did not like him.
2) They liked Hillary less.
3) If they had been offered a better choice than Hillary, they would have voted for that person.
3) They felt they were not being 'heard' by the Democrat Party. With this in mind, Trump is sort of a "taste-of-you-own-medicine" in their minds (Democrats don't listen to them = Trump doesn't listen to Democrats).
While I feel my friends were sincere about all of these points, I feel the fourth point had a particular resonance among them based upon how much active listening I had to do to reach that information. It was also a point that was hard for them to articulate (and a lot of these people are college educated). What this revolves around is a fear of being persecuted (like being called a racist, or a chauvanist, etc.) in public places for expressing certain thoughts or ideas.