I’ve thought for a while that the way to get assholes to change their mind is to appeal to stuff they already believe. They don’t care about the environment or children. Arguing for that stuff isn’t going to land. But if you tell them that like only AMERICA has the POWER to SAVE THE WORLD via TERRA FORMING they’re more likely to be like "America fuck yeah!’

Belief is largely social for all of us. Unfortunately some people are kind of stupid and hang out in similarly stupid social groups.