“There’s no educating or convincing these people. They just have to be marginalized.”
They won’t believe it until the federal checks bounce. Then they will be like the Communist Party members in post-Soviet Russia. Infuriated, dazed and unable to get it.
My benchmark lib isn’t getting gov’t checks,
but her primary motivating factor is “advocacy-based righteousness”,
ie, “I’m a good person because of the policies I support.”
Attacking the policies and showing how they are no good or harmful is a direct personal attack on this kind of lib.