Attempting to win "hearts and minds" that have already succumbed is a failing strategy. Same BS thought process military tried to use on diehard jihadists: they took the bribe cash and spent on more explosives to blow us up the next day.

Winning hearts and minds requires the target to be unsure, non-committal to ideology. Once they're brainwashed into the system, something remarkable has to happen for that programming to momentarily break. That cannot be predicted and the more you try to convince someone their whole paradigm is wrong, they will double down to prove you wrong.

I hate using cliches, but "normies" who have already bought into the BS can only break out by themselves by an event directly affecting them that alliws the disconnect to happen. Then is when you can step in.

By the sounds of it, youve already experienced this exact outcome with friends and family.

Attempting to win "hearts and minds" that have already succumbed is a failing strategy. Same BS thought process military tried to use on diehard jihadists: they took the bribe cash and spent on more explosives to blow us up the next day.

Winning hearts and minds requires the target to be unsure, non-committal to ideology. Once they're brainwashed into the system, something remarkable has to happen for that programming to momentarily break. That cannot be predicted and the more you try to convince someone their whole paradigm is wrong, they will double down to prove you wrong.

I hate using cliches, but "normies" who have already bought into the BS can only break out by themselves by an event directly affecting them that alliws the disconnect to happen. Then is when you can step in.