“ Have any of you had any success with getting through to people you know who are of the type that Susan writes about?”
None. I know many, being from New York and in ouch with family and long time friends. I have accepted that we are not going to agree politically, and have taken on the principal of my elders long gone, never talk politics in polite company
I do talk politics with like minded friends and family but I find that even they are not always down for the truth of what’s going on.
The truth will out at one point. Soon? No one knows. But when it does they’ll either continue to reject it, or know whom to call. They’ll call sooner if I’m not in their face lecturing them
Amy Coney Barrett has it down.
The best thing I know is to live a happy, faithful, fearless and cheerful life. If she is paying any attention she will notice how happy you hopefully are. Mention your joy at Thanksgiving. What great outfits you found at the mall. The wonderful new restaurant downtown. Live.
Somewhere inside she probably wants to be happy. You may, at some point, in an indirect way, get through.
Those who have chosen fear (and I do have sympathy for them. Family, doctors, the media and the government are mostly terrifying them) must see there is a better way to live.