My husband has a friend that he’s known since grade school. This “friend” of his has turned in to a flaming liberal. The friends daughter, who provides his political information, stays home on the taxpayer dime with CFS .
Anyway this friend of his is always insulting and condescending. He believes he is right and my husband is wrong on everything. If solid proof is provided that he may be wrong, it is ignored or called a personal attack.
This upsets my husband, as he is always interested in open and fair dialog between differing beliefs, and gee, he’s known the man over 50 years. This friend of his has admitted that my husband is the only conservative friend of his that has not “unfriended him”.
Somehow, this makes his liberal friend a bigger a whole rather than a smaller a whole . Kind of like a self fulfilling prophesy (let’s see if you’re my friend if I say THIS!)
I finally told my husband that friend or not...he was engaging a troll and that trolls will never admit error. I told him a troll is not worth the spit to to put him out if he were on fire.
So he finally unfriended the troll and is much happier for it.
I was going to tell you to tell him to drop all liberals from his life for the time being. They know what happened. They’ll never admit it. They’re only going to get a lot worse before they get better.
I’ve lost around 90 friends on IdiotBook ... I couldn’t care less about 80 of them. The 10 I do care about should come around once this all settles down. And it WILL settle down :-) .
I have (Had) friends like that. I told them “Look, I’ll give you a chance to convince me. You believe Trump said Nazis and racists are “Fine people” right? Show me the video or transcript of President Trump saying it.”
“I’ll give you a second shot at it: Do you think Trump said you should “Drink bleach” to get rid of the COVID? I know there is video. Find it and show it to me.”
“I’ll donate a thousand dollars to your favorite charity if you can find video or transcripts of Trump actually saying either”.
“If you are right and I’m wrong, it should be easy. It’s all over the news. Biden is using those two hoaxes as tent poles of his campaign. surely the video will be easy to find in a few minutes on Google”
It doesn’t change their mind, but it does shut them up.