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.
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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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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?
11. Show them the death camps when they are spring up.
Like trying to pry Squeaky from Charlie.. it’s their religion
You assume liberals have minds to change.
Liberals don’t have minds; they have emotions, to which they are totally and irretrievably wedded. They cannot be changed.
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.
Ha! A Glock will make them grock!
The biggest challenge would be to find a liberal with a mind.
Haha! Ol' Jackie Gleason hasn't really tried talking to a leftist, has he?...
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.
In Florida we have 17 ways to change their minds.
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.
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.
Step one:
Introduce them to Jesus
Step two:
Let God renew their mind
This is appeasist BS.
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.
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