Pro-Empathy Pledge to the People

In preparation for the 2024 Vice-Presidential Debate Empathy Surplus Network USA asks, "Who will govern with empathy for and responsibility to humanity?" Are you a #ProEmpathyFreedomVoter

Governor Walz at a Virginia, MN firehouse in October 2021. Photo by Governor Walz’s office. J. D. Vance at a 2021 Turning Point USA Conference in Phoenix, Arizona. Photo by Gage Skidmore.

Welcome back, subscribers to the Substack of Empathy Surplus Network USA. The embodied human brain is cognitively biased through experience and language toward conservatism in some areas of our lives and progressivism toward others. This cognitive bias is called biconceptualism. Empathy Surplus is a nonpartisan, membership, science-based communication education 501c3 collective to strengthen our progressive biases toward empathy and mutual responsibility to expand our freedoms. We want to know what’s most important to our members. We use interactive Zoom forums to apply and share what we learn from the books of cognitive scientist, linguist, and progressive activist George Lakoff to our individual goals. 

Our mission is to make empathy central to constant public discourse in our mutual centers of influence. Join us at https://proempathy.us/join.

Members use the Pro-Empathy Pledge to the People below at every Zoom Forum. Feel free to use it in your classroom or with your organization. Find it on our website’s footer.

I pledge my care to the people of the world

and to my neighbors in the United States of America

and to our human rights, which I defend and promote,

one world governed with empathy and responsibility,

with liberty and justice for all.

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