Education is the solution. It always is. We need to educate the living shit out of all those conservative dipshits so they stop doing so many dumb fucking things.

The problem is they think that they are educated and that they have researched these topics by going to websites run by conservative think tanks. Once that’s in their minds, they begin pushing any alternative viewpoint away as liberal propaganda because, in their mind, they’ve already researched it. They can’t even consider that their research might have been compromised from the beginning to lead them to a purposefully wrong conclusion.

It can be corrected, but it takes a LOT of effort to undo 40+ years of misinformation and propaganda being drip fed to the populace through media conglomerates like Fox News, moonlighting as far and balanced sources of information. Purposefully sprinkling bits of reality in to point to when confronted about it.

You’re not actually working to change someone’s point of view on one topic, you’re having to show them that potentially their entire belief system is based on lies and deceit to manipulate them, and not based on reality and facts.