Some of the leftists know exactly what they’re doing, but a lot are simple drones. Drones typically haven’t thought through what they’re espousing. They are simply regurgitating what they’ve learned in the indoctrination centers, aka schools, or heard from the Democrat propaganda arm, aka media. The vast majority of true leftists probably can’t be reached, but the drones, especially young ones, might be shaken up. Many of us were drones at one time. It may not reach them immediately, but conservative arguments are based on commonsense and the real world. We just have to pierce the fog in hopes they’ll eventually wise up.
Exactly, which is why it is imperative that, when we hear the droning sound, to stop the drone and make him/her critically analyze what they are saying and thereby espousing (if even unaware).
This is the beginning of critical analysis, which used to be and should the the second phase of all our learning. That is, whatever we learn, we should critically analyze to determine whether it is true or whether there is a better argument.
Why this is so difficult is because the propaganda with which students are being indoctrinated ring a friendly and popular note emotionally. If it makes people “feel” right or good or just or even if it serves some emotionally pornographic thrill, then it is very quickly accepted as true.
As you implied, the conservative argument is based on cognition, reason, thought, analysis with only a smear of emotion and rhetoric to make that thought more palatable. Well, in a generation addicted to soda and sugary snacks, it is tough to make hard thought palatable. But that is what we need to do.
One way to accomplish this is, when a leftist or liberal drone utters a comment, to dissect quickly and cleanly the argument and to point out all the purely emotional elements of the argument, and to demonstrate why those emotional elements do not belong in a sound argument.
By the way, long ago, my tagline used to be “Liberals are blind. They are the pawns of leftists who know exactly what they’re doing.”