[chajin]

A liberal cannot be convinced; in order for the liberal's mindset to change, s/he must be converted. To be converted is to experience metanoia, a complete change of one's thought process.

This usually requires being placed in a situation where every significant event runs counter to one's mindset. For example, most of those who were "America First" isolationists on December 6, 1941, were converted to gung-ho destruction of the Axis over the next 48 hours. That the events of September 11, 2001 did not convert the liberals to the eminent danger of jihadism, and the inherent superiority of Judeo-Christian-Aristotelian principles, forces one to a grave conclusion, that it will take a much more grievous event to shake them from their foundational principles and experience the metanoia necessary for our national and philosophical survival.

[qam1]

You would hope but I doubt it.

If Muslims detonated a nuclear bomb in New York City, I would bet a large number of Liberals still would rationalize it away because “Christians” nuked Hiroshima & Nagasaki.

[cgbg]

Change comes from personal experience, not abstract theoretical discussions.

Muggings teach liberals something new about crime.

Regulations of their freedoms teach liberals about liberty.

Press lies about their personal lives teach liberals about media bias.

[JimRed]

That the events of September 11, 2001 did not convert the liberals to the eminent danger of jihadism, and the inherent superiority of Judeo-Christian-Aristotelian principles, forces one to a grave conclusion, that it will take a much more grievous event to shake them from their foundational principles and experience the metanoia necessary for our national and philosophical survival.

And since we're the good guys we can't just kill 'em all and be done with it, like they would to us if they could.