Democracy makes no sense if we care for no one but ourselves and our own families.

Our Vision: We are committed to promoting a world vision of strong, diverse communities of nurturing families caring for one another in civil society, ethical businesses, and local government, while protecting and securing our mutual human rights.

Our Mission: Support our members and volunteers in framing and reframing the ongoing public discourse through the lens of empathy, uniting siloed human rights advocates and elected officials.

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Welcome. We care about you. Here’s how.

We want to know what matters to our members and their organizations in building a caring society because those matters are moral and political. Our mission is a simple idea, but hard to implement. Members strive to unite their diverse human rights issues by [1] REPEATEDLY [2] stating our MORAL WHY of empathy [3] to frame whatever we WANT. Whether it’s in the realm of a healthy family, religion, building a business, government/legal, education, arts and media, or journalism, we want to empower you to frame it from our mutual duty to care for humanity’s rights and freedoms.

Join our science-based communication education collective of caring human rights advocates.

•  Individual membership application
• Scholarship membership application

Or financially support our science-based communication education collective of human rights advocates.

• Organizational Scholarship Sponsorship
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Or volunteer with our science-based communication education collective of human rights advocates.

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C.A.R.R.E. is an acronym for Communicate All Rights Repeatedly with Empathy.

C.A.R.R.E. reminds us that to build systemic progressivism in all of our institutions, we must constantly apply three science-based framing rules in communication [1] REPEATLY state [2] our MORAL WHY of empathy, [3] for WHATEVER we want. By using this framing rule, progressives can unite siloed activists around our values.

C.A.R.R.E. is based on the phenomenon of biconceptualism.

According to cognitive scientist George Lakoff, people with healthy human brains are morally complex and have an unconscious, cognitive bias between two nations as family metaphors and moralities – nurturing parents versus strict father – care versus cruelty – democracy versus autocracy. Biconceptualism confirms the ancient lore of two internal wolves battling for the human soul – a caring wolf and a cruel wolf – the winner being the caring wolf we consciously feed. In some parts of our lives, we unconsciously apply the core values of non-hierarchical, nurturing, parent-family progressivism, a strong commitment to governing relationships with empathy for and responsibility to humanity. In other parts, we unconsciously apply the core values of hierarchical, strict father-family conservatism, obedience to the strict father’s interpretation of authority, and cruel punishment for disobedience.

Promoting our duty to care for humanity’s freedom and human rights expands empathy, the soul of democracy.

The duty to care for each other’s freedom has been a legal concept in English law since 1760. Conservatism has limited the duty to care, and fascism has ignored care altogether since their terms were coined.  The United Nations defeated fascism when World War II ended in 1945. Take 1-minute to listen to former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, who chaired the international committee of the United Nations from 1945 to 1948 that defined human rights. She is reading the Proclamation from the Preamble of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). Notice how it obliges “every individual and every organ of society” to learn about the UDHR and teach others about it using “progressive measures.” That requires a commitment to the legal concept of the duty to care. You can read the entire Preamble and all 30 of the UDHR at this link.

Benefits of Membership

Members have immediate access to our science-based education community of practice via Zoom. The benefits of membership include:

• Increase your understanding of cognitive science and linguistics in political and moral discourse
• Learn how to expand empathy in yourself and others
• Learn how to respond to conservatives
• Expand your sense of a nurturing purpose 
• Give direction to your duty to care for yourself and others
• Strengthen your ability to communicate care more effectively
• Improve your collaboration skills needed in a caring society
• Reduce your feelings of helplessness and be the responsible change
• Increase your security in the knowledge of what counts as effective nurturant communication
• Build your oratory confidence with practice
• Improve your caring critical thinking through testimonials and conversations
• Meet other caring citizens who want to expand empathy in their communities
• Feel better after talking about human rights expansion
• Voting rights for board trustees
• @empathysurplus.com email and access to our Google Workspace
• An extension number to the Empathy Surplus phone number 833-672-8487

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