[Lnc-business] Sore thumb theory and deescalation

[Richard Longstreth]

Well spoken and I absolutely love the metaphor. Thank you for sharing and I
couldn't agree more.

Richard Longstreth
Region 1 Representative (AK, AZ, CO, HI, KS, MT, NM, OR, UT, WA, WY)
Libertarian National Committee
richard.longstreth at lp.org
931.538.9300

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On Wed, Jun 17, 2020, 18:05 Alex Merced (LNC Vice Chair) via Lnc-business <
lnc-business at hq.lp.org> wrote:

> Thank you John, I deeply appreciate this message. I second the sentiment
> and hope we can all respond to this thread expressing an aim to give
> everyone here a renewed benefit of the doubt for these last few weeks
> crossing the finish line.
>
> Alex Merced
> Vice Chair of the Libertarian National Committee/LP
>
> > On Jun 17, 2020, at 8:35 PM, john.phillips--- via Lnc-business <
> lnc-business at hq.lp.org> wrote:
> >
> > 
> > Starting with a little thing that will seem off topic. There will be a
> point to it.
> >
> > Let's say you are working on something that requires driving some nails,
> like maybe a roof.  Early in the day you pound your thumb with the hammer.
> It hurts, maybe you cuss a little bit, but you get back to work.  Now
> though its a little awkward and despite trying to be careful pretty soon
> you whack it again.  This time you cuss a bit more, and it hurts more.
> This goes on through the day, and by the end of the day it is sore as
> hell.and sensitive to the slightest touch.  You bump it on your car door on
> your way home and scream bloody murder.
> >
> > Everyone else is looking at you like you're nuts and wondering why the
> hell you are overreacting to such a little bump, but you are thinking how
> can they not understand why I am so upset.
> >
> > If that metaphor doesn't work for you, think about biting the inside of
> your cheek and how for days after you keep doing it again and it gets so
> tender that even eating hurts.
> >
> > We've all done stuff like that to one degree or another, so we should
> all get it.
> >
> > Now the point.
> >
> > That is where much of this body is right now.  Our thumbs are sore, and
> the slightest little brush is setting things off.
> >
> > Not arguing which side is right, or which side is wrong, pretty much all
> sides and even those who tried to stay neutral are feeling it.
> >
> > Not just people on this body either, but members who have been watching
> and taking their sides are as well.
> >
> > Fully owning my own part in that, I still think we all need to step
> back, realize our thumbs are sore, and that maybe which ever last little
> nudge we are reacting too was not quite the hammer blow it felt like.
> >
> > At least on the surface it seems like we are all trying to move the same
> direction, that of getting through this convention somehow in some form and
> moving on to the business of supporting our candidates up and down the
> ticket, growing the party, and building freedom.
> >
> > I get the frustrations, I get the hard feelings and sore thumbs, but
> c'mon all, let's just get this crap done.  Continued wrangling is
> convincing no one, just deepening the rifts in our membership. Rifts we
> cannot afford.
> >
> > I know everyone thinks they are in the right, but none of us was
> perfect, and we all in some form contributed to the other actions and
> reactions.
> >
> > So can we all try to take that step back, let those thumbs heal up, toss
> a little ice on them, deescalate the tensions, and just get the job done
> for a few more weeks? Maybe, just maybe, if we can then a few more will
> follow that example.
> >
> > John Phillips
> > Libertarian National Committee Region 6 Representative
> > Cell 217-412-5973
>
>