@Jackstraw wrote in the Mueller Testimony thread:
I very much agree with him. And I think it applies to way bigger things than the Mueller Testimony.
Yes, it's true there are tons (maybe most) people who are so dug in and blinded by passion for the subject that they'll never move their position regardless of what happens.
I do think though there are reasonable people in the middle who can be moved. I saw it in my Dad years ago. A lifelong Republican voter who was moved to vote Democrat by the "It's about the economy" push from Bill Clinton. It happens. A lot I think. I think it's happening now.
I don't know if enough people can change to make a difference.
I do know I believe the surest way to make certain they don't change is to accuse those people in the middle in sweeping generalizations and label them evil / clueless / vile / stupid / racist when the accuser knows very little about them. And yes, I believe this to be true for both sidez.
But if we do try to include and persuade the movable people in the middle, it means we might have to try and understand and listen to them. Is that worth it?
What do you think?
I think that’s a bit myopic and internet focused. While it’s true on the edges for the partisan twitter type crowd, that’s not the fight that’s being fought. The ten percent in the middle can be moved.
I very much agree with him. And I think it applies to way bigger things than the Mueller Testimony.
Yes, it's true there are tons (maybe most) people who are so dug in and blinded by passion for the subject that they'll never move their position regardless of what happens.
I do think though there are reasonable people in the middle who can be moved. I saw it in my Dad years ago. A lifelong Republican voter who was moved to vote Democrat by the "It's about the economy" push from Bill Clinton. It happens. A lot I think. I think it's happening now.
I don't know if enough people can change to make a difference.
I do know I believe the surest way to make certain they don't change is to accuse those people in the middle in sweeping generalizations and label them evil / clueless / vile / stupid / racist when the accuser knows very little about them. And yes, I believe this to be true for both sidez.
But if we do try to include and persuade the movable people in the middle, it means we might have to try and understand and listen to them. Is that worth it?
What do you think?
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