I tried for years man, but there's so much bad faith, and I'm just one guy who just wants some peace now. I've been so fuckin angry my whole life, I just can't anymore, the futility is draining

I really don’t come to social media to change the world or people’s minds. I don’t know where this mentality of “you must change people’s minds” comes from. When was the last time some rando changed yours?

The thing that cost the the election was that overwhelmingly popular left policy was entirely unrepresented; the left screamed "Genocide, funding ICE, and doing fuckall to help people will decrease votes", liberals said "What the fuck are you gonna do, not vote? We need to appeal to Moderate Republicans(tm) by talking about stopping migrant caravans, including republicans in your cabinet, banning trans people from sports, and The Most Lethal Military Ever!!".

And once again, basically no republicans voted democrat, while massively unpopular policies decreased turnout.

It would be trivial to sway people with "Do you want free healthcare? Do you want to NOT resume a genocide? Do you want to keep federally legal pot? Do you want Trump to stay in prison?"

You can't really "change someone's mind" unless they're receptive to it. Quite often you'll just end up in a situation where both parties are already hard set into their position; then they both enthusiastically repeat their best arguments and logic, while completely ignoring what the other person is saying. The hope is that there's a magic combination of words that will trigger the incantation that changes the opposition's mind. There usually isn't.

As a thought experiment, if you wouldn't be willing to "change teams" no matter what the other person says, they probably feel the same way towards you.

I have a family member who is an avid Pauline Hanson / Trump supporter; despite my reminders that those people hate me for who I am at a fundamental level and would see me suppressed, deported, begging on the streets, or worse. I'm "one of the good ones" you see, an exemption to patch over the cognitive dissonance. I would never support them, because it would be literal suicide to do so. I'm sure they have similarly strong opinions about my favourite progressive political parties.

That said, I don't have a good actual solution, and at least arguing about things raises visibility and could sway undecided third parties. But at a certain point it becomes too exhausting to continue arguing all the time.

You can't logic people out of opinions they didn't logic themselves into.

You have to scare them.

Only USA exist 101

Ah yes I forgot about the global election that's happening in 2024

"the" election - as if there was only a single one? Lemmy.World where your account is housed is not located in the USA (while I do not know about programming.dev).

Your argument would carry much more weight if you displayed the slightest sensitivity towards acknowledging that places outside of the USA so much as exist, and occasionally have elections.

Edit: Picture removed as the comment above mine was edited to make it no longer relevant.