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> The only solution here is mandatory re-education and/or limiting who can vote, or hopefully waiting for the oldest and most stubborn conservatives to die out so alphas and gen-z can vote with a little more heart and brain.

Goodness.




You disagree?

What do you do in a situation where half the population won't take a vaccine during a pandemic because they think Bill Gates is going to track you with microchips?

Honestly, what's the solution here other than to wait and hope the voting population normalizes and self-corrects?


You could try changing the toxic two party system

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duverger%27s_law


I agree that would be a great help, but I don't see that happening when half the population is just going to be contrarian and obstructionist to something like that. Not least because it would mean they would have significantly less power if people had more options.


Are you suggesting the population came up with the idea and conclusion on their own that Gates tracking and microchips were real?

Or did they listen to and trust someone who told them that? And if so why did they listen to and trust that person?

How about the people who have the right, and science backed answers learn how to hear out and build trust with the population, so the population actually wants to listen and trust what they say?

The population doesn't have to be smart, those who have the right answers just need to be caring and compassionate and build trust with the population.

I'm sorry, but democrats seem to have no interest in even attempting to hear the right out and to work towards building any sort of trust with them.


> Or did they listen to and trust someone who told them that? And if so why did they listen to and trust that person?

Who cares? The issue is their gullibility and lac of education and ability to think critically.

> How about the people who have the right, and science backed answers learn how to hear out and build trust with the population, so the population actually wants to listen and trust what they say?

We're past that point. The tribalism is so entrenched that most of those people are never going to give the other side a chance.

You'd have to devote time to sit with each person individually and put in the time to try and educate and better them, and it's impossible since we don't have time or people to do that.

> The population doesn't have to be smart,

They kind of do. Or you end up with people that think Alex Jones is a credible source.

> I'm sorry, but democrats seem to have no interest in even attempting to hear the right out and to work towards building any sort of trust with them.

It's hard to hear out and build trust with a group of willfully ignorant superstitious ultra patriots who all too often behave in ways that could be described as bigoted.




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