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In reply to the discussion: I've posted about my Trump loving sister before. It's been quite some time since we've [View all]Bernardo de La Paz
(60,320 posts)43. That's the SOLUTION! No one will listen to them.
Isolate them.
Let them have fewer and fewer people to talk to, as the sane people abandon them and their social media one by one.
Let them live in the fact-void alternative universe and be constantly surprised and disappointed by events and ultimately bewildered until they come crawling and ask "How does this world work? Nothing I do works anymore." Then you can gently start explaining things.
But basically they have to say Biden is President because he won a fair election and the Steal was a lie.
At some point.
Or look like they might say it.
Because none of the lies they've been fed and regurgitate work anymore.
When they get to the point that even their alternative reality fails them, they're primed to leave the cult.
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I've posted about my Trump loving sister before. It's been quite some time since we've [View all]
NoRoadUntravelled
Jan 2021
OP
She loved her experience of walking the Camino de Santiago and hearing about
NoRoadUntravelled
Jan 2021
#13
If you ask questions for which there are no established talking points, sometimes you open a door
jmbar2
Jan 2021
#29
Yes, you can let them drive their own arguments into internal contradictions.
Bernardo de La Paz
Jan 2021
#50
Thing is they don't want to live anywhere else or they'd be there already.
Bernardo de La Paz
Jan 2021
#59
No doubt there are a lot of siblings going through this same thing. nt
NoRoadUntravelled
Jan 2021
#53
I laughed (not at you of course) but at her unrealistic world view...who in the world does she think
SWBTATTReg
Jan 2021
#5
Thank you. I keep hoping she'll figure it out at some point but it's a little late in the game
NoRoadUntravelled
Jan 2021
#15
I guess she didn't see all the MAGA hats, Trump flags, confederate flags & don't
42bambi
Jan 2021
#8
Unfortunately I'm in a similar boat with my family, with no hope that anything will change. :/
chia
Jan 2021
#12
I don't know how that can happen but I also don't see the occupant's influence fading unless
NoRoadUntravelled
Jan 2021
#28