The Way Forward

...That we will have to completely kill first. Or it has to be made so painful that few will confess to believing in it.

I have little faith in my "fellow man" to do the right thing ever again in my lifetime.

Or fellow women either, because idiocy knows no gender.

Women are so oppressed. Some believe that they have no other option than to vote against their own self interests.

Plus, there's a good portion of our society that are just hopelessly evil vindictive assh*les.

Until women are routinely valued as having sustained power, it will be difficult to convince others that they deserve places of power routinely.

The USA has a long way to go.

It's going to take a major culture shift and lots of hard work on the part of the populace. We may be on our way, but we aren't even close.

And I'm an optimist.

Literally, almost anyone can be groomed to be a dynamic persuasive speaker. I taught Voice and Diction and Persuasive Speaking at a college level, and I have seen some things.

Looking good and being intelligent are very small parts of the total picture.

Attention is always the most vital tool because whatever you focus attention on you strengthen.

It's good to get someone's attention, but the real trick is sustaining it and then using that attention to persuade.

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