Political Memes

Broadly, as a society and culture? Absolutely. Debate is dead, facts are relative, and walls are built-in to the human condition.

But as individuals, it's a different game. And this is where a lot of people are going to curl their lips in disgust at the idea but it's also a part of learning to be more social, learning to be better at engagement and getting people to listen to you, so it's objectively a good exercise whether you succeed or not, but people are all just people, and even if their ideology is revolting against the idea, they fundamentally want to connect and be accepted, and if you can make people like you enough that they listen to you, they WILL want to earn your acceptance, even if they don't cognitively agree with you.

I've done this a lot. I've changed people's beliefs on vaccines, on abortion, and a host of other "walled off" topics that we can't change on a large scale. This is where I am deliberately trying to antagonize users on Lemmy; the idea that we need to socialize outside of our comfort zone and return to face-to-face socializing and conversation. We CAN turn this around if more of us would get off the internet and do what I've done for years now, which is listen to people so you can then learn how to be heard in return... every person is different, with a different set of emotional locks and keys, and if you can be smarter you can learn where these keys are.

So far nobody has presented me a better idea. We've been trying to butt heads, scold, and scream and shame for decades and we've lost almost all our ground.