Posted on 10/16/2017 6:19:57 PM PDT by sparklite2
“One of the first things you have to do to give someone permission to change their mind, is to lower their defences and prevent them from digging their heels in to the position they already staked out,” Marman told SBS.
“If I immediately start to tell you all the ways in which you’re wrong, there’s no incentive for you to co-operate. But if I start by saying, ‘Ah yeah, you made a couple of really good points here, I think these are important issues,’ now you’re giving the other party a reason to want to co-operate as part of the exchange. And that gives you a chance to give voice your own concerns about their position in a way that allows co-operation.”
So next time you are faced with a situation where you need to change someone’s mind, old Pascal’s trick might be able to help you out.
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We can add that they have very malleable minds. Their masters are pleased.
Won a few over, and surprisingly the old hippies are the most amenable. The left or what it’s become actually scares them, it’s what they thought they’d fought against in the sixties and seventies. They sort of default into a vague left-libertarian position, still vote largely Democrat, but there’s nothing about the modern Democrat Party that could be described as live and let live or go along to get along. It’s all about confrontation and force. Pointing that out gently without partisan rancor is the single most effective thing I could do at the time. They’ve become what they though they hated.
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Very good analysis.
Some are recognizing that “Progressive” actually translates into “Repressive”.
You know the Democrats have gone completely off the rails and over a cliff, when aging hippies and union guys think they’ve gone too far, but they appear to be planning on running with it so they’re only going to get more weird from here on out.
That noise is what Johnny Hart referred to as “honkey tonk”. :^)
I have no proof but I strongly believe Pascal’s approach would not be effective in religious matters and to many socialists socialism is their religion.
bkmk
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