You honestly think you can make people care? You’d have a better chance making me care about which team I support in Basketball. I can’t make them become engaged in my direction. But I can make them engaged against me.
Because the only way you can “address the problem” directly is to make the situation worse. Berating people about a position makes their position stronger. Yelling facts at them does the same. I think there was a posting about how hard it is to tackle anti-vaxxers.
Ideologically, they aren’t suddenly going to become Liberals. What I care about is not what they care about.
And fair enough - we’re different people, and that’s why we have democracy.
All one can do is make our side less threatening. Since giving up policies is a non-starter, and giving up attacking the awful policies isn’t going to happen, then giving up the hate that makes them feel under attack is the best I can do.
And yes, one man’s choice is pretty small potatoes. But in the end, I have to decide which is more important: my hatred of people who don’t think like me or my desire to see life improve for others.
(Well, at least if they’re privileged enough to live in Canada - I’m absolutely selfish enough to be glad that I don’t the option to vote on something like truly open borders that would help perhaps a hundred million at the cost of shredding the culture that I value.)
