My brother is a liberal, and I’ve argued with him many times. He often just goes silent, and despite all our discussions, he never changes his mind. I eventually realized that logic wasn’t the issue
It was discomfort. A fear of confronting truths his worldview was built to avoid
Because I can bet that if we all actually changed our minds from arguments alone, without any effort, we would be in a much better place than we are right now
I don’t think arguments change people’s minds, most of the time people avoid the truth because it makes them uncomfortable or because there’s a strong underlying emotion behind their reaction
Communism DOES work and has worked in the past. As a species we survived through cooperation, not by competing and stepping on others
Today there are two types of capitalism