Comments by "Aaron Okeanos" (@AaronOkeanos) on "My Dad Is Trying to Drag Me Into MAGA-Land" video.

  1. I've heared of people hanging on the ventilator and still denying Covid exists. It's like their opinion is worth more to them than their life. However I think what people actally protect is their sanity. If Covid exists and is as dangerous as "the other side" always said than "the others" might be right on others things as well. And worse: When they admit it they also have to admit they fell victim to a major betrayal. A betrayal reaching from their bed to the capitol and it's so huge that people prefer to pretend to still believe in the lie because the other way would break their heart and potentially mind.
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  2. Try treating those people like kids. Polite, friendly, caring and patronising. It works astonishingly well for some reason. It's almost as they seek guidance and leadership but the problem is they put their trust in manipulative hate-sources like Fox.
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  3. Do not try to argue with facts. You will only push him further away. Try to seperate him from his media sources for a while if you can. Maybe you can make a holiday trip with him or a longer travel. Just try to give him an incentive to not listen to any political news for a while it changes peoples perception and addiction to News and Hate. Maybe you can make a deal with him somehow like: You stop listening to politics for 2 weeks and I give you X in return. Or "Come on, let do this or that for a couple of days/weeks" or something like that. When you really want to argue than try not to convince him directly by attacking his position but by explaining how you do come to the opinion you have. Understanding is everything and people are more willing to listen like that instead of a frontal assault on his beliefs he may not be able to defend properly. If it effects you badly in some way than explain this to the person how his political opinion / standpoint affects your emotions or life and his opinion may make you engaging with this person even less if this continues. Normally emotional attachments, friendships or even family are worth more to those people than some political position. But your main goal should be to somehow make the person stop listening to the Hate-Generators in Form of so called News Channels or Social Media. And just staying away from it and doing anything else is reducing this hate feeling people get addicted to.
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  4. Yes this works but careful, when they ever find out the relation becomes unfixable in the future.
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