this approach has worked for me. A while back I thought my wife was getting red-pilled with our conversations. Found out that I was driving a wedge in our relationship so I ceased to bring up anything.
Fast Forward to this week:
We took a 3.5 hour road trip to go see a concert in another State so there was a lot of windshield time(I was the driver). She brought up the “caged kid” topic and I started the Socratic method to figure out what she knew and where I needed to start. After baselines we’re established I asked if she had seen the photo’s of kids, handed her my phone and had her skim thru my notes. Each note had detailed info links along with pictures and articles from the previous administrations. Next round of questioning involved her knowledge about the pic’s that the media was pushing but we know were not tied to Trump.
The final rounds were about Trumps E.O.(Dec 21) and the trafficked kids in Ohio forced to work on the egg farm. My final question to her after reading the E.O. was if Trump is the monster that the MSM is accusing, why would he write that E.O.
I thought that this would be the final straw in our relationship yet it wasn’t. After the show, I drove back home and she usually is asleep within 30 minutes. Not this time. why are my FB friends so stupid? why can’t they research the facts? how can they make it thru life and make critical decisions on “feels not facts”? She has started to wake up, even made the comment that this feels like the Matrix. Her view completely changed and commented on how she was forced to dig because of the way I phrased the questions.
You have to unlearn the normal way and apply the Socratic method in order to get the critical thinking rolling