Many people operate primarily on the emotional level. That's a polite way of saying they're stupid. Idiots. Like a child who'd rather have 4 shiny pennies than one tiny dime.

If we're not going to round them up (which, give me the infinity gauntlet and...) then we need to appeal to their idiot emotions. Find something they consider in-group, and frame whatever reasonable policy they're opposing so their benefits are foregrounded.

I work closely with a woman who describes herself as conservative. She is staunchly against benefits like free school lunches and period products. Her argument is that it is the responsibility of the parents or the woman herself to work hard and buy those things themselves instead of taking from others.

She absolutely believes that being poor is an indication of laziness and lack of work ethic.

It’s the most infuriating to hear her speak about these things as if her middle-class white ass didn’t get built in societal benefits that allowed her to succeed despite her worth ethic or lack thereof.

I have this really conservative uncle(doesn't everyone) who said at a family dinner once that we should just deal with it because it "happens every month" and we should be "used to it". This was in regards to the idea of schools providing them for students.

It's been around 5 years since that happened and I have not, and will not ever forget it.

These people are assholes. It's who they are and we need to find ways to get rid of them because you cannot convince them to care about others.

We need to make a machine that make them change sex temporarly, then when they can't get tampoons or will have to spend a lot, they will understand