Since my job is to proselytize on behalf of economic liberty, I’m always trying to figure out what motivates people. To be blunt, I’ll hopefully be more effective if I understand how they decide what policies to support. That’s a challenge when dealing with my friends on the left since some of them seem to be motivated by envy.
Unsurprisingly, there are people on the other side who also contemplate how to convert their opponents.
Harvard Professor Maximilian Kasy wrote a column for the Washington Post that advises folks on the left how they can be more effective when arguing with folks on the right. He starts with an assertion that conservatives are basically impervious to facts.
Worries about…our “post-factual era” impeding political debate in our society have become commonplace. Liberals…are often astonished at the
seeming indifference of their opponents toward facts and toward the likely consequences of…
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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