Reply #15: Maybe you can get her interested and concerned [View All]

[TexasLawyer]

with a different approach. I have 3 nice but lazy and self-centered teenagers, who I have been trying to turn into civic-minded young adults. This approach might also work with someone who is already an adult.

I was able to get 2 out of 3 to help me with activist projects and to be at least somewhat interested in politics. The main thing I do is to try to give them a personal stake in the issues. I also try to make the issues less abstract, and I "witness" about things to them with as much emotion as I can muster.

I'll asked them things while I'm driving them to soccer, like-- Did you know that our government can kidnap you and take you to a foreign prison and torture you and never let you out again?

They'll say "No, they can't do that!" and I'll show them later that day that it IS happening.

A few weeks ago I asked if they knew that our government could send them to war on the other side of the world AGAINST THEIR WILL? They did not believe that was possible, but I showed them all about the draft, and they are now QUITE interested and riled up.

There's got to be at least ONE issue that will get your "fiancee" riled up. Especially if you preach about it the right way.