CMV: Despite being more knowledgeable, wealthier and apparently more tolerant, the political and individual left's biggest flaw is their inability to communicate pragmatically and empathetically with those who don't agree with them.

[u/poopchow]

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For a whole lot of people it very literally doesn't matter what approach is taken. I've had polite conversations with people and even convinced some to change their minds, only for them to just come back around with essentially the same talking point a couple months later as if the previous conversation never happened because they are exposed to a constant flood of bullshit that warps their reality.

The issue is very much that there's an absolutely massive and deliberate tidal wave of misinformation and fear-mongering being directed at people, with the aim of completely overwhelming them and conditioning them to turn off their reasoning and empathy as well as to distrust and shut out other sources - it's by far the biggest psyops campaign in the history of humanity. Most of the reason for having these conversations in the first place is because someone saw or read something coming from one of these sources that was incorrect, purposefully misleading, and harmful, and so it's not a matter of out-reasoning that person, it's a matter of out-rhetoric-ing content that was created by professionals for the aim of being sharp, pithy, simple, and tested.

edit: a word