• thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 year ago

    I was traveling through central and eastern Washington State yesterday and I discovered a few new roadside Trump support banners up. At a restaurant in Ellensburg I saw two guys wearing Trump hats. These were a new style, not the famous one. Why do the farming communities still see Trump as a good leader? Mind boggling. The rural Washington voter is constantly voting against their own best interests and I don’t mind asking them why but it never fails to come down to some bullshit right wing propaganda that is easy to point out but because I don’t believe the propaganda, and question them about it, I become part of the problem. And discussing it usually just leads to them digging their heels in deeper.

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      1 year ago

      You’ll never, ever, change the pov of a cultist if you reveal yourself as an outsider. You have to play the angle of being one of them or being undecided. It helps if you’re genuine about it and make yourself open to their ideas.

      That being said, some people are illogical and can only be convinced out of a cult by using the same faulty logic that’d got them in. E.g: “Trump is deep state controlled opposition’s but he doesn’t know.”.

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        1 year ago

        I don’t think I probably need to say this but, be careful about opening yourself to cult logic if you’re not steady in your own beliefs.

        This is how you flip fence dwellers into cult followers js.