Just a bit of anecdotal evidence...
My opinion is seldom shaped by anything I see on the ‘news’ as it’s all mostly lies anyway. But I was recently made aware of how much my opinions have been affecting other people.
I have a couple accounts on facebook that I keep pretty active (when they are not in facebook jail as they often are). I’ve had several people come up to me lately and express how my posts have made them look into matters more deeply and have changed their opinions on some things. Gently shifting people toward conservatism one opinion at a time. Some of these were legacy democrats having their eyes opened that the democrats of today are NOT their daddy’s democrats, and some were non-political people being nudged to become more conservatively active.
I can’t change the world, but I CAN change how one or two or a few people see the world.
So yes I do believe that our voiced opinions are important. (Which may be why mass media and the ‘social’ platforms keep trying to censor conservative thought so badly)
Exactly.
Wikipedia-The Butterfly Effect.
(excerpt)
In chaos theory, the butterfly effect is the sensitive dependence on initial conditions in which a small change in one state of a deterministic nonlinear system can result in large differences in a later state.
