Comment by ryandrake
5 days ago
This is why arguing politics with these guys is pointless. I once naively thought I could bring around one of my MAGA friends to the light side by focusing on policy but it just doesn't work. He admitted that everything Team R is doing is not really helping him but in the end it's always something like: "Look, I was born a Republican, my family is Republican, I will never vote Democrat, no matter what any of them do. We have to trust Trump to do the right thing." It's truly a religion. There is no getting to these people.
We could offer them an alternate social structure that they're welcome in. It beats calling them deplorables and trying to browbeat them.
This doesn't work. Respectability politics just backfires, this makes the extreme more extreme, not the other way around.
No, this will not work.
The people who have the most success in terms of engagement against Anti-Vaxxers are not the pro-vax or normal people. Its the Anti-anti-vaxxers
The vibe of being able to fight for a moderate position, extremely - is what is currently working in debates.
Being treated like a worthy adversary, or being beaten by someone they can respect is one of the avenues is likely going to succeed more.
Why should I offer charity to people who keep referring to *all* Dems as scum of the earth and similar?
Depends on what you want. Do you want to win, or do you want to spite the people who hurt your feelings?
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“All of those people are deplorable and garbage because they think I am the scum of the earth (because I think they are all deplorable and garbage)”
I wish all y’all would just own up to the fact you hate each other for a million different reasons and can’t play nice together.
Don't you think it cuts both ways though? I saw a video where a guy was asking (presumably liberal) NYU students about quotes relating to immigration policy. He initially said they were from (republican person T), and they stated that they thought the comments were racist. Then the interviewer said, oh wait, sorry, they were actually from (democrat person O), and the students immediately shifted their opinions and said the comments were reasonable.
I would love to see this video if you can find a link
I'm sure there's a little tribalism on the (D) side, too, but I don't know anyone who decorates their house, yard, and truck with Democrat merchandise and flags, wears Democrat political shirts and hats, has a shrine at home with a life-size figure of a Democrat politician, or brings up Democrat politics in social settings that are not even remotely political like a kid's birthday party. I've seen real life examples of all of these from the (R) side.
You don't want this, I promise you. I was in a Discord recently that was the liberal equivalent of MAGA and it scared the bejeezus out of me to see Dems frothing at the mouth like rabid red hatters.
I live in Seattle and they exist on the (D) side too, it just depends on the neighborhood. And don’t get me started on Portland :)
Speaking to you as a progressive here I wish we had more viable parties.
You've never seen evidence of cultural/tribal signaling on the left? Never seen an "in this house" sign, somebody wearing a mask outside and alone/spread out, NPR tote bag, "Anti-Racist Baby" book on the shelf, brought up Robin Deangelo or random Trump jokes at a bbq... Fish don't know their wet.
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Really? You’ve never seen a life sized Barack Obama cutout?
You’ve not seen an “in the house we believe” yard sign?
It goes both ways.
Yes, second the desire for the video.
Tribalism coming to the Dems is taking FAR too long. People recognize that tribalism is working for the Republicans, so it’s natural that they are going to eventually imitated the winning strategy.
Seriously, I can’t believe it took this many decades for it to happen, and only after Trump made its efficacy blindingly obvious.
PS: Tribalism is not good for the overall health of a polity. Its just that people imitate whatever strategies appear to work.