Uspol rant
Most conservatives really are conservative. They don’t want change because they’re worried about change for the worse, usually phrased in a dualistic, moralistic way- punitive stuff is the easiest way to phrase morality. They worry taxes are going to increase, the government will get up in their business, but there’s no benefit for them - just people they worry are coasting at best or murderous at worst. That opens them up to racism, outright lies, profiteering, a world of evils.
Uspol rant
Theoretically most of these guys could be our allies. You’d somehow need to convince them that transit, health care, UBI, solar power and turbines, tolerance etc benefits them; and above all else, that they’re NOT bad people, that they’re basically good, hard working etc. Doing this would ordinarily be hard; doing this when any government thing is gonna have mistakes is nigh impossible; Fox News, the Republicans and megachurches make this impossible.
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You do make sense. Shouting at someone who could be persuaded to join your ‘side’ is a bad strategy. (So is insisting that they sacrifice their dignity in order to be allowed to help fight the good fight. People will die for their dignity.)
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@Verdigris how do you reach out to someone who’s actively your enemy though, who holds that your faith is a murderous abomination and your friends are subhuman?
And I’m sure someone on the opposite side has thought the same.
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Daryl Davis seems to have a pretty good method: https://youtu.be/ORp3q1Oaezw
Uspol rant
If it sounds like I’m saying “these are good people,” I am, BUT that’s the whole CRT argument about systemic racism and Marx talking about worker alienation, etc. You can be a great guy who basically wants good things but if the worldview you’re conservative about is bigoted, punitive, and exploited by anti-environment profiteers, what’s going to come out is NOT GOOD. If I’m making any sense? Anyway, end of rant.