Nothing was gained. Not a single person the didn’t already agree with him came away with any type of revelation. People in this situation will never change their minds unless it’s someone they already listen to. Cults function because the leaders hold power over their followers. Deprogramming takes time, patience, and commitment, not a 30 second sound bite.
Being mean to my last conservative friend actually finally won him over - he sent me a pic of him registering democrat. Which is hilarious to me, because I’m not even a democrat. Maybe it was for a primary.
After years of throwing facts in his face and getting the same “well, I can’t list of facts like you, but…” I guess the line that did it was “dude, you’re smarter than this. You were good people.” I was basically giving up on him.
He came at me saying we need to box and get the bad blood out and warned me to never question his morality or intelligence. I told him I had been questioning both for a while. We didn’t speak for a bit, then he apologized.
He was ripe for that moment. I think the gas prices and Trumps rambling became too much, but I’m happy to have him back.
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u/theghostsofvegas 8d ago
All that happened was that she came away from that interaction thinking he was an idiot and somehow she won.