It´s just a hunch for me, but conservatives have already given up on the whole civility thing which I have yet to experience a single liberal abandon. When people talk about their journey towards leftism, it´s either they used to be chuds or they were never sold on capitalism to begin with.
This is just anecdotal and based on my scewed experience. Anyone got something to add or refute?
Every lefto I know was a liberal earlier in their life, so I'm gonna say from experience that no it's not easier to convert conservatives.
same, all my close high school friends and I were obama libs and now we stan xi jinping :xi-god-emperor:
I made the journey from neocon to Obama lib to Bernie lib to ML lib, so there's that
This was my exact journey as well.
This might be geographic, because of the handful of people I've swayed over, all of them were conservatives, but that's probably just because conservatives comprise 95% of people where I grew up