I’d be happy to send you a supply of crayons.
Seriously, some can’t be educated. But I prefer not to give up on all of them.
The reason that some can’t be educated is because they operate totally on emotion. “You can’t reason a person out of something he was never reasoned into.”
When you run into someone like that who operates solely on emotion, you have to convert them with emotion. No amount of factual evidence will sway them. People like this can be easy to persuade if you find the right triggers. That’s the hard part. You have to figure out what emotion is driving them and appeal to that. Do they like Hitlery because all the cool kids like her? Are they in an arrested state of development and are liberal because it’s a thumb in the eye to “the establishment” (i.e., their parents) and they are still in the rebellious teenage stage? Are they voting for Hitlery because she is a woman and they think it shows support for women?
There are so many bad emotional reasons why people vote liberal/Hitlery and you’ve got to figure out what they are and fight on their terms. You can’t win by expecting libs to play your game (facts and reason). They won’t. Perhaps they can’t. You have to beat them at their own game.
This may be the best advice I have found on FR in a while and I am profoundly thankful for it. I have family and friends that I am just not wanting to give up on. It's not a matter of "winning" the argument, but rather wanting to spark something in them that will inspire them to THINK, to break away from the sheeple attitude and think for themselves.
"Converting them with emotion" sounds so reasonable. Having a tendency to approach everything with an analytical mindset, I'm not sure exactly how to go about this. Is there a "how to" book? I'm ready to give it a try. Any advice?