Seven Reasons the Left Is Losing - The Atlantic
"When Abraham Lincoln was 33 years old, he gave a speech inside a Presbyterian church to a temperance society. His message: The assembled ought to be nicer to drinkers and sellers of alcohol, rather than shunning them, or denouncing them as moral pestilences. Indeed, they ought to use “kindly persuasion,” even if a man’s drunkenness had caused misery to his wife, or left his children hungry and naked with want. For people are never less likely to change, to convert to new ways of thinking or acting, than when it means joining the ranks of their denouncers."
