The crimes of capitalism, the absolute devastation of third world countries and the environment, the coups, the war crimes, the CIA drugs. All of them. You need to show them the true extent of the nightmare we live in, and they have been oblivious to.

And then, some basis on history, science, and philosophy. Seriously, like how the fuck is the academia in the US this clueless about politics ? Not even the average joe, the fucking ACADEMIA itself. There are unironic horseshoe theorists passing this trash as knownledge worth indebting yourself for.