For those who are still unable to see it is literal insanity, at this point.
Show an awake person an apple and they see an apple.
Show a zombie an apple and they will see anything except an apple.
This is insanity; the inability to recognize reality.
The answer, sadly, is something like conversational shock treatment. Make them taste, smell and feel the apple. Let them hear the familiar crunch when they take a bite.
Child trafficking and sexual exploitation is shock treatment. It is reality so impactful that only those who condone it, or those too feeble of mind to process it, can look away. It is a visceral subject, shocking broca, allowing it to pass fully into the mind.
If you want to finally wake the zombies in your life, try discussing Sound of Freedom in a non-threatening way.
My way might be something like this: βThe top movie in theaters is a true story about children being kidnapped and sold into slavery and viscously raped and tortured daily. Everyone with a soul, left, right and center, is seeing it. Iβm concerned that our government is involved in making these innocent children suffer. It is a problem we can all agree needs to be addressed. Letβs go see what it is all about together.β
Buy them a ticket.
There is no need to attack. Be soft. You are looking for their acceptance of an invite to a film. The film will do the heavy lifting. The film will show them the apple for what it is.
My feeling is that SoF was held back from being released for all these years because it was not time yet for its wide acceptance. Five years ago it probably would have come and gone with a whisper.
It is a powerful tool to help break through the fog. It is the shock treatment we have been waiting for.
(Professor Patriot)
They may be good people, but I don't believe for a minute that's why they're so easily manipulated. And I hope you're not implying that realists aren't good people... "Goodness" is not why they're easy to manipulate. Fearfulness, ego, insecurity are all high on my list of suspected culprits here (at least with respect to the jabs, for example). Yes, they obviously have lack of skepticism as well. Maybe they're not even fearful, but are good people who are too trusting. They have not only a lack of discernment, but an unwillingness to seek the truth.
Take an example of a charity, call it X. You discover that X is engaged in shady dealings and has little or nothing to do with the charitable cause they're espousing. You know your friend Joe gives to X so you try to tell Joe what you've discovered. Joe likes the nice ads X runs and can't believe they're not what they claim to be. Joe continues to donate to X. You can call it what you like, but I'm not calling that "good". Joe is now supporting bad people because he's willfully ignorant. He wants to feel good about being generous for a good cause even if he's doing nothing of the sort. He is self-deluding. It's more important for Joe to feel good about himself being generous to people in need than to face the reality he's doing nothing to help needy people and is only enriching deceitful individuals. That is not "good". IMHO.
I'm not at all a misanthrope, just bone tired at seeing what always giving people a pass for bad behavior has gotten the state of the world into. When people refuse to look at the truth, refuse to truly and honestly consider all sides of an argument, refuse to admit that there's a problem and doggedly stick to their false beliefs despite all the evidence available to the contrary, we end up with chaos and worse. Like we're currently experiencing. (Rant over).