The Futility of Talking to the Irrational
Kadizzle needs to accept a hard truth: you cannot reason with the irrational. Time and again, he’s gone down to the park and engaged the Jehovah’s Witnesses, hoping to open a window to reality. It never works. Their heads are filled with a rigid script, doctrines repeated so often they no longer even question them. No matter what evidence you put before them, their minds slam shut.
The MAGA faithful are no different. They operate on the same principle: if it feels good to believe, then it must be true. Trump can lie, cheat, and steal without consequence in their eyes. He can be caught in scandal after scandal—corruption, fraud, even accusations of predatory behavior—and his supporters will shrug. Why? Because their brains have been branded by his lies. They repeat them until they become scripture.
The Tea Party laid the foundation for this style of politics long before Trump. Their entire strategy was distortion: invent a threat, magnify it, repeat it until it becomes “truth.” They lied about Obamacare, they lied about deficits, they lied about government overreach. Facts never mattered. What mattered was creating a worldview where paranoia replaced reason. It was propaganda disguised as populism.
Now, MAGA has taken that template and weaponized it. Anything they don’t like becomes “Fake News.” If Trump is caught red-handed, the explanation is always the same: “Trump knows things we don’t.” It’s the same circular logic of cults and conspiracy theorists—an unshakable belief in the leader no matter how many lies are exposed.
Talking to a MAGA brain, like talking to a Tea Party zealot or a Jehovah’s Witness, is not a debate—it’s an exercise in futility. Rational thought bounces off like rain on wax paper. The Tea Party normalized the lie; Trump turned it into a religion.
The only way forward is not persuasion, but exposure. Shine the light, document the lies, and never stop pointing out the truth. But don’t kid yourself: you won’t change the MAGA mind. You can only make sure the rest of America doesn’t get dragged into their alternate reality.
2 comments:
Is this how you "make sure" America doesn't get dragged into alternate reality. May be your donut social should be canceled out of respect for Mr Kirk. I don't think you guys have the honor or decency.
Mr. Kirk was a major part of the. problem Trump has created. Who would respect that?
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