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At Yale we conducted an experiment to turn liberals into conservatives


https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/inspired-life/wp/2017/11/22/at-yale-we-conducted-an-experiment-to-turn-conservatives-into-liberals-the-results-say-a-lot-about-our-political-divisions/?utm_term=.ae7709a3399f
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Blocked behind paywall.
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Norman Podhoretz: "A Neo-conservative is a Liberal who has been mugged by reality."

Today, its progressives and their ideology allows no re-think, no Overton Window. It These are the progressives that suffocate intellectual freedom on campuses, and these are merely, communists; who are funded by Billionaires. $$$ This, then, is the current Democrat Party. Maga!
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Red,

No paywall here:

http://www.michaelpatrickharrington.com/yale-experiment-could-they-turn-conservatives-into-liberals/

Not too long, and interesting. I've heard similar ideas before.

For me, the old "win one over, one at a time" process is all I know.

I ran into doing that while I was getting an online degree. My class was heavily military or retired military - the College was oriented to a military student body.

So when we disagreed, we had a good attitude toward each other.

There were a few times in those three years when I knocked off a PC idea that was expressed in some threaded discussion. All it took was the use of a simple, clear argument and a ref or two.

Each time the person had never subjected the idea to critical thought. They may never even have heard the idea criticized.

Spud - that is very similar to how you describe the Progs - "progressives...allows no re-think, no Overton Window...suffocate intellectual freedom..."

Now consider our current thought-battle. We have a virgin mental field in a sense.

Some of our opponents are graduates who have been told to be afraid of new ideas and to seek "safety" from the danger of a counter argument.

They may have been sent into conversational battle set up for a slaughter.

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The reported research is an exercise in confirmatory bias. "Conservatives" are motivated by fear and loathing of the unknown, and if we can just remove their unjustified fears, well, they'd embrace authoritarianism!

The Left has been indoctrinated with a single PC view of issues, and have not been exposed to opposing arguments. That's why we see so much rage on the Left -- they simply can't understand how people can have views dissimilar to theirs.

That's also why it's hard to have substantive debates with those on the Left. They are fearful of having their world view upset, and so turn angry pretty fast.
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