Subversive Snacks
“I made snacks for work. Lots of MAGA and political abstainers, but you’d better believe they all want chocolate covered peanut butter Ritz. Anyone who gets mad needs to ask themselves why the CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES triggers their defensiveness.”
(a creative resister who said we could use their idea, but please don’t use their name.)
Why we do it:
Salesmen know that if you can get people to agree with you even once, they’re more likely to get to yes again. By packaging snacks in containers with messages the right ought to agree with, but have become politicized, you re-build common ground. If they’re offended over delicious treats, that’s on them. You could also do this with something generically progressive-coded like rainbow-decorated tubs, or an NPR tote full of “emergency snacks” for the co-worker who forgot his lunch. Humans respond positively to treats, and we’re pretty good at generalizing a message, when it slips through our defenses.
