I hate that I believe the sentence I'm about to write. It undermines much of what I spend my life trying to do. But there is nothing more overrated in politics - and perhaps in life - than the power of persuasion.
It is nearly impossible to convince people of what they don't want to believe. Decades of work in psychology attest to this truth, as does most everything in our politics and most of our everyday experience.
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