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So you'd rather lose elections on principle than try and convince them to vote your way? Doesn't sound like a smart play to me.
They👏👏will👏👏never👏👏be👏👏convinced.
These people don't share values with you. They think immigrants steal jobs and commit all the crimes. They are extremely happy that the brown people are being herded into camps. They think that abortion clinics are killing babies on the government dime because the atheists want to eliminate Christianity. They are the ones pushing abortion bans across the country. These are not sane people. No matter how logical and fact based your argument, they will cling to their twisted views.
The way to win elections is to stop trying to appeal to these people and start investing time and money into the "socialist" policies that left wing voters are almost constantly asking for.
Both Hilary and Kamala tried to appeal to the right wing and it cost them and us. It's time to leave the right wingers in the dark where they are happy and focus on bringing the left wing back up out of the shadows because the fucking cold war is 30 years done and over. We no longer have to be scared of the words socialism and communism because there is no longer an iron curtain and the Russians are even more capitalist than we are at this point.
This. Exactly this.
The problem with being a rational person is that you have rational responses to ideas and problems and expect irrational people to also have those same rational responses, but all they can have are irrational responses. There is no convincing them. There is no appealing to their better angels.
I'm not saying appeal to them. I'm saying stop antagonizing them so you can feel morally superior.
It's easier to pass the legislation you want without telling the opposition they are morons if they don't support it.