Yeah, they don’t accept facts, they don’t accept main stream media, they don’t accept academia, quoting anything, anything I’d consider real information, is “triggering” to them and they all get upset.

They’re quick to threaten violence, they try to anger liberals any way they can to “own a lib” and I have dubbed them “cons” for con people and short for conservative… I just don’t know how to talk to them.

If we don’t agree on a common set of data to interpret the world through, if they believe qanon and all these “deep state” conspiracies, how do I even get through to them?

I remember a time of being able to have a rational debate with a con and not calling them cons bc they hadn’t dubbed me a “libtard” yet… but it’s like okay we disagree on issue Y, where can we meet in the middle so as to get the policy passed?

I just don’t see this nowadays. The divide has been widening since I was a child and we are more divided now than ever before.

I don’t know how it gets better.