Do you think it would be possible and productive to wage a campaign of integrity?
It would be a campaign of integrity from every angle (similar to Oprah’s cell phone campaign) asking people to sign a pledge that they will not forward any email they have not personally vetted through truthorfiction.com or snopes. And also will refuse to listen to the outrageous comments of (any) on-air extremists? (Put them out of business.)
This would be a grass roots effort on the part of the people to say, “Hey! We have integrity, and you do not speak for us!”
Even if it started at a thousand people and grew to 10 or 100 – it’s a peaceful way to calm the rhetoric down and begin to build an understanding among ourselves, even if our leaders are unable to do it.
[This was first posted as part of this conversation ~ Eds.]



How would we go about it? I check things out that come to me all the time if I am not sure of their origin (IF I even bother to open them) and I always post back to the sender with the snopes link.
Mary I’ll talk to the editors when I get back from vacation and see if we can sign a pledge on VN. I’m indebted to them for plucking that response out of an earlier conversation. This could be the quiet way that raises awareness on all political fronts. xo
Yes, I would like to sign this pledge. Let me know the next step.