I've been trying to come up with a philosophical strategy (in my mind - as yet untested) to modify the thinking of highly resistant normies - coz like most people here, my extended family and friends are full of them.
The best I can come up with so far is to assure normies that they don't have to change a principle or a strongly held political belief system. They don't have to change a thing about themselves to become awake. All they have to do is listen to a few truths that will prove those they most believed never genuinely shared any of their principles or beliefs. And to assure them that once they let a sliver of evidence in that challenges the integrity of their heroes…… there is no going back. The first step - hard. The next steps - easy.
But the important point/hurdle seems to be finding a way of not blaming them for the faults of their heroes. Now I know in practice, that's a damn hard thing to do!!!! Must try harder.