How to talk to a Republican

How to talk to a Republican
By Jason Stanford

http://jasonstanford.org/2012/04/how-to-talk-to-a-republican/

Does it ever seem that Republicans are wrong about everything these days?

The list of demonstrable malarkey that Republicans hold to be
unalienable truths is laughably long: Obama is Kenyan; Obamacare has
death panels, increases the deficit, and pays for health care for
illegal immigrants; Abortions give you breast cancer and cause pain in
fetuses as young as 20 weeks; Iraq had WMDs and Saddam Hussein
collaborated with Al Qaeda; Tax cuts increase government revenue;
Obama's stimulus created no jobs, and in fact government spending is
hurting our economic recovery; If we don't raise the debt ceiling, we
can simply prioritize payments and avoid disaster; We are a Christian
nation whose forefathers "warned the British" about our gun rights,
"worked tirelessly" to abolish slavery, debated Creationism before
Charles Darwin even thought of evolution, and never intended to
separate church and state; Evolution is not real, and global warming,
if it's even happening, isn't our fault.

To a syllable, all of this is thunderingly wrong, contradicted
entirely by peer-reviewed scientific studies, as well as the vast
majority of economists, historians, doctors and logic itself. But try
convincing a Republican. From the think tank to the phone bank, from
the church pew to the floor of Congress, the Republican Party has
adopted as gospel a litany of lies that stops just short of declaring
the Earth to be flat. I worry that's next.

More promising are his suggestions for one-on-one progress. Get a
conservative away from Fox and put them in front of CNN or MSNBC, and
his or her attitude might change more than you would expect. Or you
could start with an affirmation of a conservative's values and respect
where they are coming from. At least one study shows that makes
conservatives more receptive to facts.

In The Republican Brain: it very hard to have a rational discussion
with a Republican if they damn the facts and go full speed ahead into
their happy place where Sarah Palin doesn't sound stupid.

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Together, we can change the world, one mind at a time.
Have a great day,
Tommy



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Together, we can change the world, one mind at a time.
Have a great day,
Tommy

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