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The German people did not abandon Hitler even as their cities turned to ash.
I suspect that is some sort of sunk cost falacy combined with a narative that says only he can get the bad things to stop; once it get's to the point that your cities are being destroyed, you probably wont, and certainly wont have the opportunity to, change leader. It's critical that as many minds as possible are changed before getting to that stage.
Show me a single example of a Republican ever changing their mind.
I have a friend of a friend, I'll call him RustGamer, who is a 3 time Trump voter. He marched with me last Friday for the 50501 Veterans protests. The week before he learned for the first time since it's occurrence that two people died on J6. He was willing to read the Jack Smith report and was deeply troubled by it.
Sure there are some absolute shitmunchers and some so deluded they're unsaveable. But for some, these people are misled, or downright brain washed.
Rustgamer has no technical literacy outside of Rust. He watched whatever Facebook, Instagram, or ticktock pushed. And of course fox news since that's what his parents taught him. He wasn't good at searching for dissenting opinions because Google would just push him more propaganda sites when trying to, sponsored search results are evil.
He's been in a different reality for the last decade and is just now waking up. It took a lot of talking, a lot of biting my tongue, and showing him I a "radical leftist" actually wanted what's best for both of us. It's not easy and I completely understand if people aren't in a mental place to do it with what's going on. But we only get through this if we do it together.
United we stand. Divided we fall.
I don’t even like talking to people in the first place.
Ugh don’t remind me. Dealing with a bunch of psychotic apes is my least favorite part of existence.
SAME SAME SAME. When I started confronting these people in my life my anxiety would flare up to the point my voice would shake lol. And I never in my life thought I'd be out marching in the streets.
It gets easier, but it takes practice (Prozac helps too). Now the anxiety has become anger. But not anger at them, rather anger at the system. Anger at what we let this country become. Anger at how lazy and complacent I've become.
Do your best, stay safe, and most important of all don't get scared. Get angry.
That’s the problem: I’m always angry. My voice doesn’t shake, it just gets louder until I walk off angry and never talk to them again.