09-20-2017, 11:57 AM
(09-19-2017, 09:44 PM)Warren Dew Wrote: I think you've got that backwards. Most people have to encounter new ideas more than once if they are counter to a lifetime of propaganda exposure - especially when the propaganda specifically includes simplistic ways to reject those ideas. In addition, I believe, he has a vested interest in the welfare system. Get him a job that takes him off welfare for a few years, and he might suddenly become open minded.
When Americans of the red-state mentality can stop making welfare into a bugaboo and scapegoat, and thus their basis for voting, and realize it is just part of a workable society, now needed more than ever in this age of computer automation and globalization, then they will have become more mature and more like grown up adults.