Commentary
One of the most difficult things to do is to change someone’s mind about the issues of the day that are so crucial to us.
Changing someone’s ideology, if you can call it that, is even harder.
Most of us want to do it, but few of us can, especially when it comes to changing the minds of relatives and friends (who often become former friends in the process). Such attempted conversions are weighted with baggage, often going back to childhood, that surpasses politics and obliterates any possibility of reason.
Affecting the opinions of an acquaintance works on rare occasions; the more casual that acquaintance, the more possible. Often, you’ll do better with a stranger sitting next to you on a plane than someone you know….