Question is what is the easiest way to radicalize an apolitical person from a Republican family?

  • darkchapofantasy [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Lol no way in fuck would I date a ghoul. I'm kinda thrown for a loop that she even said she voted Republican, but I really think she just does what her family does. She seems pretty apolitical, seems to support lgbt, drug legalization, and is anti-racist.

    My impression is that she is sheltered and lives under a rock at this point

    • hogposting [he/him,comrade/them]
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      4 years ago

      I really think she just does what her family does.

      I remember seeing some article saying the number one predictor of a person's voting habits is their father's voting habits. And I'm sure there are plenty of people who don't vote in line with their folks, but we're talking trends here. Politics for most people is cultural, and people learn culture from their parents.

      And in addition to the other suggestions here: think media criticism. Citations Needed is excellent for that. It's not so in-your-face left that a conservative will reflexively reject it, but once you see what the media covers and what it doesn't you get into the question of why, and that leads very directly to leftist thinking.

      • Ithorian [comrade/them, he/him]
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        4 years ago

        My family always voted republican, first time I voted it was for Bush. At the time I wasn't interested enough in politics to do any real research and I had no dissenting voices to give me ideas. A decade or two can change people a lot.

        • hogposting [he/him,comrade/them]
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          4 years ago

          I would describe it as lib-friendly, but not lib itself. It's a podcast you can recommend to your lib friends because (a) it's extremely high-quality and (b) it's not overtly leftist, but it's certainly anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist.

    • Nakoichi [they/them]
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      4 years ago

      Definitely show her the podcasts I linked then. Yeah Robert has bad takes on foreign policy a lot of times but those two series are the perfect thing to show an empathetic "apolitical" R voter. You can educate her on the other stuff later.