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Ten Ways to Change a Liberal's Mind
American Thinker ^ | 2 Sep, 2022 | Jack Gleason

Posted on 09/02/2022 4:14:28 AM PDT by MtnClimber

How can you reach people with closed minds? Try these.

Have you ever talked with a liberal and made a comment that shuts him down completely? "Trump sure is getting a raw deal with that FBI raid, isn't he?" His eyes go glassy, and he starts to look for the exit. Or he repeats something automatically, like "Trump deserves anything he gets."

This "orange man bad" mantra is often called "Trump Derangement Syndrome." It effectively shuts down all communication between disagreeing sides and prevents any kind of meaningful dialogue, even between good friends or family members. Even intelligent people who are suffering greatly from Biden/liberal policies, through loss of jobs, high gas and oil prices, rapid inflation, high taxes, or curbs on religious freedoms, won't be able to change their minds and consider voting for a conservative or moderate candidate once he is somehow linked to Donald Trump.

SNIP

So how can you reach people with closed minds?

1. Be from within their tribe. Start by reinforcing what the two of you have in common — you may have lived in the same city, had similar jobs or similar backgrounds.

2. Get permission to discuss — "Would you like to tell me about your views on global warming?" This makes the idea of a discussion non-threatening.

3. Resolve never to argue or raise your voice. Don't threaten or invoke fear. If things start to become even a little heated, then withdraw — "we can always discuss this later" or "now may not be the time to discuss this." Getting into a heated argument is going to activate the liberal's lizard brain and end logical reasoning.

4. Start small. Don't try to convince the liberal that Donald Trump is the next George Washington. Go for a smaller issue

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1 posted on 09/02/2022 4:14:28 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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I post this to see what people think. Would you think that you are likely wasting that portion of your life with no chance of curing a disturbed individual?


2 posted on 09/02/2022 4:14:46 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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11. Show them the death camps when they are spring up.


3 posted on 09/02/2022 4:18:09 AM PDT by Jonty30 (Some men want tod watch the world burn. It is they that want you to buy an electric car.)
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To: MtnClimber

Like trying to pry Squeaky from Charlie.. it’s their religion


4 posted on 09/02/2022 4:19:43 AM PDT by Lib-Lickers 2
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You assume liberals have minds to change.


5 posted on 09/02/2022 4:19:43 AM PDT by HYPOCRACY (This is the dystopian future we've been waiting for!)
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Liberals don’t have minds; they have emotions, to which they are totally and irretrievably wedded. They cannot be changed.


6 posted on 09/02/2022 4:20:40 AM PDT by ScottinVA (To hell with Putin; to hell with Russia)
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The great mind changing machine:


7 posted on 09/02/2022 4:21:15 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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8 posted on 09/02/2022 4:21:19 AM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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This does generally work.

I’ve done this with a younger coworker who now regrets voting for Biden and sends me stuff on Biden I already knew, but he’s just now uncovering.

We do occasional things together we have in common.


9 posted on 09/02/2022 4:26:56 AM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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10 ways:
  1. Artillery
  2. Mortars
  3. Rockets
  4. 5.56 Nato common
  5. 7.62 Full metal jacket
  6. Bayonet
  7. Frag grenades
  8. Claymore mines
  9. Howitzers
  10. Mossberg 12 Ga.

10 posted on 09/02/2022 4:28:48 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Travis McGee

Ha! A Glock will make them grock!


11 posted on 09/02/2022 4:30:01 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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The biggest challenge would be to find a liberal with a mind.


12 posted on 09/02/2022 4:30:27 AM PDT by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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"Would you like to tell me about your views on global warming?"

Haha! Ol' Jackie Gleason hasn't really tried talking to a leftist, has he?...


13 posted on 09/02/2022 4:35:22 AM PDT by Hatteras
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I am normally a polite, respectful, low-key, well-spoken guy who choses words with some care, and try to be logical and reasonable. I don’t inflame, bloviate, or preach.

I have not had good luck discussing politics with liberals, no matter how circumspect I am. There is always the brittle, stubborn point, which one can’t get past.

I have given up. I don’t know where this is all going, but my gut suggests it won’t end up in a good place.


14 posted on 09/02/2022 4:45:30 AM PDT by William of Barsoom (In Omnia, Paratus)
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In Florida we have 17 ways to change their minds.


15 posted on 09/02/2022 4:45:42 AM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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You can’t “change the mind” of a liberal. It’s an evolutionary process, over time. At some point, they’ll have an epiphany of their own accord, which is called being “red pilled,” but you can’t force that epiphany with mere logic and facts. At most, you can provide the environment conducive to the “red pill moment.” But you can’t expect it. Think of Helen Keller suddenly understanding the sign language word for “water,” but only after her teacher knocked her brains out day after day and failed.


16 posted on 09/02/2022 4:49:14 AM PDT by ToxicMasculinity ("Free country"? Good morning, Rip.)
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I really don’t care to try to change the mind of a brain-dead liberal these days. Most of them can’t even acknowledge all the destruction and chaos that democrat policies have wrought in the last 2 years alone, so frankly they just aren’t worth saving. This train is leaving the station without them.


17 posted on 09/02/2022 4:50:58 AM PDT by Prince of Space (Let’s Go, Brandon! )
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Step one:

Introduce them to Jesus

Step two:

Let God renew their mind


18 posted on 09/02/2022 4:52:52 AM PDT by Raycpa
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This is appeasist BS.


19 posted on 09/02/2022 4:54:14 AM PDT by Gaffer (Infidel, and proud of it!)
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My preferred “go to” for dealing with liberals....WHY BOTHER! No matter what you say, they will disagree. On anything and everything. You can’t have a truly productive conversation with people are are deluded and unwilling to look at the unreality of their delusion. Why bother. “Crazy people don’t realize they are” applies here.


20 posted on 09/02/2022 4:55:21 AM PDT by Qwapisking ("IF the Second goes first the First goes econd" LStar)
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