Remember all those “This Thanksgiving and Christmas, you have to talk to your conservative relatives” speeches libs used to give? I think it’s time us leftists start having those conversations with our Liberal relatives because it turns out that *they’re* the conservatives that need convinced to no longer be bigots.
The purpose of a system is what it does - Wikipedia
This is the single hardest maxim for liberals to understand. Don’t come out of the gate swinging, talking about policy or goals or material dialectics. Start with gentle philosophy. Ask them questions.
Yes, if you scratch a liberal a fascist bleeds, but during most conversations I have with liberals, they agree with me on a lot of points. Healthcare is good, abortion rights are good, immigrants shouldn’t be deported, war is bad, etc. etc. But the thing that traps them in liberalism, the mental prison that’s been constructed around them is the idea that there’s an “Ideal America”. An America where Truth and Justice and Equality prevail. A kind of Aaron Sorkin’s America. Democrats are good guys, Republicans are bad guys, and we have to work to defeat the bad guys to Make America Great Again. And it’s in that moment that the bars of the prison slam shut.
I can’t give you a script and tell you what to say, but I can tell you that a lot of Liberals are doubling down and becoming more conservative, but a lot of them are also going through a crisis of faith. Give them something to believe in.