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At book club last night (highly recommend Serviceberry) I had two realizations that feel important: 
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1) bridging ideas (library economies) are super important to helping people move toward change
https://brightgreenfutures.substack.com/p/episode-25-library-economies-and
2) we had a discussion about “making friends with the neighbors” vs. “making your friends into your neighbors (co-housing, buying out the neighborhood etc)” (latter is a real trend people yearn for; former is something we struggle with).
My neighborhood has many conservatives. My take: you’re not going to “make friends” w/ conservative neighbors without a lot of (probably fruitless) emotional labor on your side.
I see a lot of advocacy for this & I think it’s actually not the right approach...
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"Work harder to connect w/conservatives" seems like moralizing (we *should* do it) or wishful thinking (we *wish* it was possible).
It’s posed as a solution to the fact that people love fascism, as if they’ll turn away if you just do more hard work to convince them...
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@susankayequinn I live in a mixed rural village of progressives (a lot of tech folks who commute to a city 35 mins away) and a broad spectrum of Anabaptists (from more 'modern' Mennonite to Old Order/Amish etc.) Lots of religiosity, and some people certainly may hold "traditional" views but you will still see signs of support for all communities here. Perhaps it helps that many Mennonites are social justice oriented, I don't know. 1/2
(she/her) @susankayequinn@wandering.shop@mark although the "sorting" of people into an urban/rural divide is broadly true and increasing with political divisions as people actively move to where there are more people "like them" it has always been true and remains true that there are people of all kinds of politics everywhere. It doesn't surprise me at all that you could have a mix that's "atypical". We need to get rid of our stereotypes for sure — but that's a point that's separate from the one I was making.