This is just basic psychology. It takes a long time to change someone’s political beliefs, and it isn’t effective to just argue with people, even with facts. Interestingly, one way to get people to change their opinion is to frame things in terms of how it affects them and their family.
It took me…I’d say 2 years from being a full conservative to a left-leaning independent. And then another 2 years to being a moderate to progressive liberal.
It does happen. But some people are so rooted in their political identity that they will never change.
Oh God you said the L word
Yeah but usually people aren’t this self aware
It seems best to facilitate people’s ability to change on their own. Plant seeds of cognitive dissonance and walk away.
Hey covid will still kill you even if you call it a hoax.
Rep: you God damn liberals are ruining this county Several family members die
Rep: they died of pneumonia not covid covid is a hoax and a Chinese bioweapon.Like I can’t tell that they actually give a fuck about reality anymore even when they can directly see it killing them they still deny it.
That’s a different problem. Too much propaganda from right wing interests.
So how do you combat that if even their family dying around them isn’t enough to get them to even consider those people on tv might have lied to them?
I wish I knew the answer. At this point, much of it has become closely linked to their personality, and is basically a cult.
Meanwhile people still saying they’d rather be intubated than having taken a vaccine, cursing it with their last breath. Repeated story countless times in hundreds of hospitals
Meanwhile people still saying they’d rather be intubated than having taken a vaccine
I only wish they get what they ask for.
The elephant and the rider
For stupid people, that might be true.
Nothing to do with intelligence I promise.
This picture sums it up pretty well too.
Lmaoooo just in time for Thanksgiving dinner. 😆 Good luck to all the lemmings out there who have to deal with conservative family members today/tonight.
To those that are about to dine, we salute you!
Where in the US is there socialist agenda?
Our choices are either a stripped rights corporatacracy or full on fascism.
Medicare, Military, Social Security, Minimum wages and bailouts for banks and billionaires. All forms of wealth distribution but god forbid your country actually implement national healthcare in a way that truly benefits everyone.
Ok genuinely This has to be satire
Please I beg
The core values of libertarianism: (god I wish I saved the original reddit comment, oh well I’ll paraphrase)
“Yes it’s fascist pseudoscience with no basis in reality, however it’s still a useful theory so I’m going to continue to believe it”
Marxist Leninists when they haven’t ignored 150 years of contemporary political science for sixteen microseconds
You better be quiet before you summon the bears.
Which parts exactly?
Mostly the parts where autocracy doesn’t liberate the workers. Even temporarily.
Dunking on an anonimized FB post with 0 likes that seemingly no conservative seems to agree with
This is like punching the dummy in Varrock order to get level 8 debating
