I’ve got a bunch of them in my family, and yeah, I’d agree ~75% of the people who voted for Trump are die-hards who won’t listen to anything.
I’ve got a cousin, though, who admitted he bowed to the family pressure and voted Republican last year. He was telling me about how he didn’t think the Democrat platform on the economy was going to be good for him and his family esp since he has a kid on the way, and that he thought him and his would fair better with the Republicans at the helm. He also talked about how he was exhausted at the rhetoric “the left” was always using as a counterpoint to Trump - specifically that Trump is always called a Nazi - and that him and his (then) fiance did alright and that the country didn’t completely collapse under Trump’s first administration.
He’s in one of the swing states that went red this last cycle.
Its the small but movable part of the American populace like him that I hope to influence with data like this.
But you lose so many of them when you open with mocking the other side like they aren’t people; when you act like you’re so smart and the other side are bumbling apes barely capable of sentience; when you’re SO much smarter than them.
Maybe I’m the idiot, but from what I’ve seen, you don’t sway people by insisting you’re better than them. You do it by listening. And I’m seeing more centrist people swayed to the right because people on the right treat them like they’re real people. I hope to do that in the opposite direction. Whether its the correct move or not, I guess we’ll see in the next election.
Lolwut?
I deleted my Facebook some years ago, and so don’t have the means to double check this. Is this for real?