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(38,459 posts)Holy shit.
Butterflylady
(3,544 posts)The truth to them is not the truth that we know. To them it's totally different, its what their reality is telling them and we all know they live in a totally different reality then we do. It's simple.
Garrett78
(10,721 posts)As I posted back in late 2016 on the subject of reaching Trump voters:
It'd be one thing if most people were working from a set of agreed-upon facts (it doesn't help that we're living in an age of 24/7 infotainment with media personalities who say it's not their job to fact check). There would still be, of course, disagreement over causes for and appropriate responses to those facts. Maybe some persuading could take place. Or at least some reasonable compromising. But millions of people flat out deny facts while subscribing to patently false beliefs. Presenting them with facts has a tendency to backfire, as studies have made clear. The false beliefs become further ingrained. That's true across the political spectrum, but it's a matter of scale. While most everyone will cling to at least some false beliefs, there are those who simply live in an alternate reality.
njhoneybadger
(3,910 posts)dchill
(38,505 posts)Jobs aren't jobs. Winning isn't winning. And collusion isn't collusion!