Do you even bother trying to persuade the other side anymore? DO YOU EVEN TRY???

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14. I won someone over in 2012. She was a life...

...long Republican. She was unhappy about the ACA because she thought it would increase the number of welfare cheats. She was not going to vote for Obama on these grounds. This came out at a lunch with friends. Afterwards I wrote her an e-mail where I acknowledged that some people cheat, but made the case that medical care has become so technically complicated and therefore expensive that no one of ordinary means can be expected to go without insurance, and insurance can't be expected to pay unless the pool includes lots of healthy people. She e-mailed me that she was persuaded and would vote for Obama.

I sure wish I could say this happened more than once in my life. But I do see it as evidence that sometimes showing that you listened is better than the approach of others at the lunch who just privately sighed and dismissed e=her.