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Can A Progressive Be Convinced By Facts?
Manhattan Contrarian ^ | 22 Nov, 2021 | Francis Menton

Posted on 11/22/2021 4:00:13 AM PST by MtnClimber

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1 posted on 11/22/2021 4:00:13 AM PST by MtnClimber
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Progressive and facts are like oil and water. They don’t share the same space.


2 posted on 11/22/2021 4:00:27 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

See my tagline......


3 posted on 11/22/2021 4:03:09 AM PST by mo ("If you understand, no explanation is needed; if you don't understand, no explanation is possible)
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“Can Dracula be convinced by garlic?”

You’d probably have better luck than with the leftist.

4 posted on 11/22/2021 4:04:30 AM PST by Caipirabob (Communists...Socialists...Fascists & AntiFa...Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: MtnClimber

Your first mistake is in thinking that Progressive you know is a ‘friend.’ It is a mental disease, one for which there is no cure. To get down to their level of insanity is a dangerous undertaking.


5 posted on 11/22/2021 4:08:46 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: MtnClimber

Apparently not.


6 posted on 11/22/2021 4:10:58 AM PST by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.)
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So, the Progressive, essentially says:

Burn it all down! Because I am not happy with the way reality is!

Destroy all of society, because I am not happy!

That will make it better!

Those are serious delusions, and a serious threat to all the rest of us.

7 posted on 11/22/2021 4:11:43 AM PST by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries. )
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Progressives like this are what Eric Hoffer described as “true believers.” They really do not care about getting the truth, and are impervious to rational thinking, critical judgment. For most of us, it is genuinely hard to accept that there is a significant population perfectly willing to deny the facts in front of them and instead support a fabricated narrative. Butt they exist, and this article presents a good example.


8 posted on 11/22/2021 4:12:14 AM PST by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative.my )
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Can A Progressive Be Convinced By Facts?

No, and neither can conservatives if it is about a subject they feel strongly about.

There are reasonable people who are amenable to facts, but in my experience they are small in number compared to everyone else who is not moved by facts.

Emotion is the most successful method of arguing, but it only works if you can put forth a sufficiently moving emotional argument.

9 posted on 11/22/2021 4:12:23 AM PST by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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The reason you can’t convince some Leftists is because they don’t reveal their real reasons.

“The reason is never the real reason. The real reason is always the Revolution”.

The Left needs for Antifa and BLM to feel safe on the streets while they loot, riot, and burn, otherwise they are less likely to show up. The left NEEDS their thugs to intimidate conservatives into silence. Kyle’s acts threatened that dynamic.


10 posted on 11/22/2021 4:15:54 AM PST by SauronOfMordor (A Leftist can't enjoy life unless they are controlling, hurting, or destroying others)
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Your first mistake is in thinking that Progressive you know is a ‘friend.’

Leftists don't have friends. They only have people they see as being susceptible to influence. At the point the Leftist sees you as someone who can't be converted, then they cancel you.

11 posted on 11/22/2021 4:18:59 AM PST by SauronOfMordor (A Leftist can't enjoy life unless they are controlling, hurting, or destroying others)
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If you read the FBI declassified files on the Weathermen you will find they landed on the idea of using the blacks to cause dissention in the United States.

Obama has connections to the Weathermen. I’m sure this is all been the plan for years and is now so big it’s hard not to see the leaks.

Stemming from communists of course.


12 posted on 11/22/2021 4:23:03 AM PST by Beowulf9
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To: NewJerseyJoe

P4L


13 posted on 11/22/2021 4:23:51 AM PST by NewJerseyJoe (Rat mantra: "Facts are meaningless! You can use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true!")
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To: MtnClimber

It is very hard, nearly impossible, to reason someone out of a position they didn’t reason themselves into.


14 posted on 11/22/2021 4:25:16 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Lurker

Ping. Your tagline is looking more and more accurate, sadly.


15 posted on 11/22/2021 4:30:44 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: SauronOfMordor

Agree.... but I was speaking in terms of the sane person thinking of the progressive as a ‘friend.’ I won’t associate with anyone who is a leftist progressive. And that includes family.


16 posted on 11/22/2021 4:31:36 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: MtnClimber

NO !!!!!


17 posted on 11/22/2021 4:35:49 AM PST by saturn
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Facts only matter to rational people that want to learn... Facts don’t matter to evil people that have an agenda.


18 posted on 11/22/2021 4:37:43 AM PST by mikelets456
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Your first mistake is in thinking that Progressive you know is a ‘friend.’ It is a mental disease, one for which there is no cure. To get down to their level of insanity is a dangerous undertaking.

Just tell them "Muslims are right about women and gays."

Make their brains short out.

19 posted on 11/22/2021 4:38:17 AM PST by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: MtnClimber

Is this a trick question????


20 posted on 11/22/2021 4:38:58 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (Covid Is All About Mail In Balloting)
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