• somename [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    A certain breed of pollster is shocked by the idea that events, policy, and advocacy can actually change people’s views. That having a vision for the future, for something better, can actually shift opinions.

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      Imagine the number of issues that are like this. That it would be possible to flip the reactionary public into a progressive fervor in under a decade.

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        we saw it with gay marriage and acceptance of homosexuality, although that’s already being eroded it still was a massive leap forward that the entire public made from being complete homophobes into being more “orientation blind”