Rally @ the US Capitol #Oct 29 "I am a person! Citibank is not a person!"

[JsonicL]

Annabel,

I want to pull out two point from this video that you made:

1. "It's really about building that inclusive community."

2. "We dont really have a Mubarek, because we have a legal system that we want to change."

If you look through the comments on the Coffee Party Facebook page, you may notice there is a paralyzing degree of cynical negativity. Typically, people are targeting specific politicians or parties, which I believe is what the CP was trying to rise above.

How do we change this?

[AnnabelPark]

@JsonicL Slowly and with compassion. That is the state of current politics: polarized, cynical and negative. We have to provide an alternative approach and continue to engage people in conversation and bring them into real relationships of respect.

[JsonicL]

@AnnabelPark That's the nature of the political environment, I agree. I read a lot of comments in online news articles, and it's the same everywhere. Regardless, I believe the people commenting on FB could benefit from some guidance.

E.g., the post about "We The People," there was so much negativity as to make the place unpleasant. Why not weigh in? I found this in your mission statement:

"We understand that the federal government is not our enemy, but the expression of our collective will"

[Sarge714]

I’m rooting for you guys, but your tactics are doomed to failure.

You’re fighting an entrenched enemy who out guns you with a frontal assault.

You need to out maneuver them and use their own energy against them. Their arrogance has given you the pieces, use them dang it.

Please, sit down and think outside the box and come up with a new approach. All these marches/rallies do is give them something to laugh at because they are not directly affected.

[creative1overhere]

Copy Cat? of what? Tea and Coffee is very different. We don't mind a little Tea in the Coffee. The Coffee Party has been around for a while....non-violent, non-partisan. What's in a name anyway when the concept is correct? See you in DC?

[satyadinamori]

Being a coffee party is too much of a copy cat .Please come up with a more original name The concepts ae correst! I agree!

[satyadinamori]

Being a coffee party is too much of a copy cat .Please come up with a more original name

[northstar789]

Well done!  Thanks for the clear perspective.

[xyzoneon]

Too bad this movement doesn't have the Koch bros. to bus people in.

[alfishes]

Keep fighting, Annabel. :)