• CosmicTurtle@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    It took me…I’d say 2 years from being a full conservative to a left-leaning independent. And then another 2 years to being a moderate to progressive liberal.

    It does happen. But some people are so rooted in their political identity that they will never change.

    • Zink@programming.dev
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      1 year ago

      That’s pretty much the process I went through ~20 years ago. The individual has to care about actual evidence and truth rather than the “truth = agree with me” crap that is common.

      I think a big, big part of it is realizing that the people on your side are not necessarily arguing in good faith just because they’re on the “correct” team.

      And that’s a pretty big deal when “just ignore that, it’s not real” is a deep core practice of your team.

    • explodicle@local106.com
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      1 year ago

      The liberals in government need a little help, we should all unionize too so they won’t have to focus as much on worker’s rights. Like even shut down the rails if we need to. They can become the moderate option to keep things running.