We need to learn to use emotional arguments on leftists.
Im sick of us complaining about how easily manipulated leftists are while not making any effort to manipulate them.
Instead of using facts and data, tell them a story. Leftists weaknesses are disadvantaged people and fairness.
Tell them about someone who came from the bottom. Who worked their ass off at two jobs for 20 years so they could keep the bills paid and have some left to put into savings. Who put it all down on a little spot in a stripmall right down the street from their first house.
Dont skip the little details either. Like the time the car broke down and he took the bus to work for three months. The bus wasnt running after the shift at his second job was over so he walked 5 miles home.
The getting sick without health insurance, because leftists mandated full time workers get coverage so everyones hours got cut and he lost his coverage. Which is why he needed to work 2 jobs now, to cover the hours leftists cost him.
The late nights he spent with his with his wife going over all the expenses and daily sales at the fledgling little business they started. The massive stress of those first few months when customers weren’t coming in yet. The glimmer of hope that kept them going. The pride they felt the first month they turned a profit, meager as it was. Things were looking up.
Then the mob came and smashed out his windows and stole all his merchandise. It didn’t matter that he agreed with them, that he was black, that the insurance company would definitely find a way to weasel out of paying him. They burned his store to the ground and cheered like it was a game.
Hes back at the supermarket now, working those late shifts again. But he isn’t the same anymore. His American dream is gone. And its worse because he came so close. He was at the gate, and they slammed it shut in his face.
When the riots first started, that evening when we saw it on tv, my first thought, which I stated out loud and one of my kids was in the room, was that they were burning their own neighborhood down. What good would that do to anyone that lived there?
Psychological trick i learned when I was young, when your boss comes to reprimand you for something stand next to them, shoulders aligned, instead of across from them.
Subconsciously now you are working on the problem together instead of having a confrontation. Applying that same logic of turning confrontations into collaborations, just toss out a statement of sympathy first.
“I understand their frustration, they have been dealing with corrupt government for decades. But that doesnt make it okay to hurt innocent people, even if its a rich guy who owns a target”
Like another one I heard, if you have to criticize someone, always pay a compliment first. It keeps them from getting defensive and not hearing the message.
We need to learn to use emotional arguments on leftists.
Im sick of us complaining about how easily manipulated leftists are while not making any effort to manipulate them.
Instead of using facts and data, tell them a story. Leftists weaknesses are disadvantaged people and fairness.
Tell them about someone who came from the bottom. Who worked their ass off at two jobs for 20 years so they could keep the bills paid and have some left to put into savings. Who put it all down on a little spot in a stripmall right down the street from their first house.
Dont skip the little details either. Like the time the car broke down and he took the bus to work for three months. The bus wasnt running after the shift at his second job was over so he walked 5 miles home.
The getting sick without health insurance, because leftists mandated full time workers get coverage so everyones hours got cut and he lost his coverage. Which is why he needed to work 2 jobs now, to cover the hours leftists cost him.
The late nights he spent with his with his wife going over all the expenses and daily sales at the fledgling little business they started. The massive stress of those first few months when customers weren’t coming in yet. The glimmer of hope that kept them going. The pride they felt the first month they turned a profit, meager as it was. Things were looking up.
Then the mob came and smashed out his windows and stole all his merchandise. It didn’t matter that he agreed with them, that he was black, that the insurance company would definitely find a way to weasel out of paying him. They burned his store to the ground and cheered like it was a game.
Hes back at the supermarket now, working those late shifts again. But he isn’t the same anymore. His American dream is gone. And its worse because he came so close. He was at the gate, and they slammed it shut in his face.
This is perfect. Thank you.
When the riots first started, that evening when we saw it on tv, my first thought, which I stated out loud and one of my kids was in the room, was that they were burning their own neighborhood down. What good would that do to anyone that lived there?
Psychological trick i learned when I was young, when your boss comes to reprimand you for something stand next to them, shoulders aligned, instead of across from them.
Subconsciously now you are working on the problem together instead of having a confrontation. Applying that same logic of turning confrontations into collaborations, just toss out a statement of sympathy first.
“I understand their frustration, they have been dealing with corrupt government for decades. But that doesnt make it okay to hurt innocent people, even if its a rich guy who owns a target”
Like another one I heard, if you have to criticize someone, always pay a compliment first. It keeps them from getting defensive and not hearing the message.