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F--k You, WaPo, I Do NOT Have To "Understand" Trump Voters (opinionatedogre.substack.com)

submitted 4 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

Genuine question. How do you solve decades of religious indoctrination, poor education, and racism en masse?

I could maybe educate my two parents, maybe. But then what?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 weeks ago

Encourage them to educate their friends. Tell people you successfully educated your parents. You can’t change this alone, but that alone does heavy lifting in that sentence

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 weeks ago

Nominate an opposing candidate that speaks directly to the underlying issues that made scapegoating minorities attractive. (See AOC / Trump split ticket voters.)

[–] jbrains 7 points 4 weeks ago

Genuine answer: one mind and one heart at a time. With any luck, some of them become influential and the message spreads more rapidly.

Religious indoctrination is hard, because so many of them teach that indoctrinating others is a way to save them. Ultimately, however, the whole belief system is a house of cards. It takes surprisingly little to bring it down. Ask them how they know that what they believe merits their belief. It starts there.