{"id":3384,"date":"2018-06-11T08:08:47","date_gmt":"2018-06-11T15:08:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=3384"},"modified":"2018-06-11T10:46:02","modified_gmt":"2018-06-11T17:46:02","slug":"tom-nichols-just-nailed-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=3384","title":{"rendered":"Tom Nichols Just Nailed It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RadioFreeTom\/status\/1005663634528309248\">this Twitter thread<\/a>. It&#8217;s pointless to try to argue policy with Trumpist true believers so long as they remain true believers.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, I would suggest focusing on reaching out to the unmotivated who sat by and allowed Trump to take power because they didn&#8217;t care enough about either side. Then there&#8217;s those who were simply too disgusted by both sides to vote for either. On that latter subset of voters: in a world where, as Marx observed, &#8220;the oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them,&#8221; why <em>wouldn&#8217;t<\/em> they be?<\/p>\n<p>Also, focus on the disenchanted; some (<em>not<\/em> all, you <em>can not<\/em> count on it being all or even most) Trump voters will, after enough pain, start to question their decision and can be peeled off from his base. We&#8217;re already starting to see that with some capitalists and farmers getting queasy about the trade wars Trump is starting.<\/p>\n<p>But there&#8217;s going to be true believers that stay true believers. Heck, there&#8217;s still Hitler and Stalin fans out there, who believe their idols have been massively unfairly treated by the opinions of a misinformed public. Trying to convert such people with facts and logic is mostly a wasted effort.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this Twitter thread. It&#8217;s pointless to try to argue policy with Trumpist true believers so long as they remain true believers. Instead, I would suggest focusing on reaching out to the unmotivated who sat by and allowed Trump to take power because they didn&#8217;t care enough about either side. Then there&#8217;s those who were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}