Progressive’s attachment to constantly narrate all we’re confronting frequently renders our target audiences objects, not subjects, in our sentences. Little wonder we have trouble motivating people to sustained action.
Anytime you’re taking about what “they” do to us - you’ve made the opposition the actor and made passive those you’d like to see acting.
One of the proven most effective levers for mobilization is social proof: suggesting or claiming the group to which your audience belongs is already doing the thing you’re hoping to inspire.
Thus in lieu of, say, “if they didn’t think your vote mattered, they wouldn’t be trying to suppress it” (they act, you acted upon) - “they think they can suppress our votes, but that only makes us turnout even greater numbers” (target audience as implied narrator & actor)
