There was a mist on the election night in November. As I changed television that evening, there was a lot in my mind, including the end of a relationship. I kept staring on the screen as the rolls started to roll. By 10 o’clock, I turned off the TV and climbed on the bed, knowing that when I woke up the next morning, it would be in the news for Donald Trump returning to the office. I was already tired. Already defeated.
I thought Donald Trump would have prepared more for this moment before I was elected President. But while in 2016, I was filled with strength and determination and willingness to fight, 2024 was ready to completely separate me. I did not have the capacity, especially with emotional toll, this recent change in my personal life was mentally taking me on me. Go inward, My mind told me, at least for now. protect yourself.
Since months since, drive to activism that I was sure not to return naturally. Other people told me that they shared these emotions. I am tiredHe said. What can we do? At the same time, I know that this attitude is what the other side wants.
Adam Met is the basist of Multi-Platinum Rock Band AJR. He also has a PhD in the International Human Rights Act, teaches as an assistant professor in Colombia, and co-founder planets re-operate, a non-profit organization whose mission is to lead a bilateral response to our global climate crisis. He is now a writer. In Increase, Met takes from his experiences as a musician, professor and activist how we create a community and connection to attach socially more effectively. Therefore, at a time where it was felt that there was a significant change in our political atmosphere – Trump and Kasturi fractureing, ongoing LA immigration protests – I asked him what someone could do to move Annui and start getting entangled again.
Giku: Preparing this chat, I panicked myself strangely. And I realized that from November 5, I have objectively opposed talking about politics. I still have this mindset, Protect your peace,
Adam metThey are so disappointed with this establishment that many people have retreated in their own communities and themselves in this discovery for peace. And as long as we all know that the outer world – outside our communities means – brick is being dissected by brick by such policies that can be stunning for something and can be stunning for others, we are trying to find this inner peace within our own communities. It is also facilitating what Trump and others want, which is more divided and more isolated. And I think that while this idea is really important that you take care of yourself and get peace, it is also true that we did not try everything during the last election cycle.
As individuals? In what ways?
Meaning we trust people at the Democratic establishment and at the party to tell us how they want to run unlike those in our community – those who know how to reach the audience, how to talk to people, how to talk effectively, how to make creative messages. We are musicians or actor or media people who know how to reach people. We Know how to do it. And we did not really use our own skills to do so. We just followed what other people were asking us to do. But we know who the audience is and we understand how to reach the audience.
So I think there was a disconnect and so it made us all very disappointed and more angry because we were not doing what we know that it actually works well to reach people. We were following the instructions of other people. This is why it needs inner peace from now on who we are, we find this belief that we know what we are talking about. And this is the way forward using those devices to reach people. So once we get our time to re -form ourselves, I think we are going to be bigger and stronger than ever.
Your book mentions how there are eight things that need every campaign or every social movement, the fifth is to develop ways to attach your audience. You talk about how majority fail or stagger. Why is it so hard for movements, although to tap in it? I think back to 2008 and Obama and like it, “Hey, we have a blueprint for it. We kept a audience very busy.” What happened? How did we lose it?
Therefore, the era of Obama came when social media was the same unbroken thing. In the last eight years – and in fact the last four years, especially more – social media it has become a truly distributed network. During Kovid, when we were on Ticketkok, everyone saw the same tiktok. The things that really grew up, you saw the same things that your friends did. It was as if TV was in the 50s. Everyone saw the same television program, then they all went around the water cooler and talked about the same program. He was Tiktok. It is no longer present. And your Tiktok for you page is very different from me, very different from any of our friends. That and where we are now, there is a relationship between what was Obama and what was the election of 2024.
