Have you noticed what I've noticed? It's not really something new. I started to notice way back in 2015-ish that protests seemed to be deliberately non-persuasive. Note that this is well before Trump, possibly all the way back to the beginning of Obama's terms or farther. And I'll admit that I've only noticed this as a left-wing phenomenon, possibly because I don't need to be persuaded of what my opinions already are. (And right-wing arguments that I find stupid mostly elicit a rolling of my eyes.) I had a long conversation once with someone about the very poorly conceived practice of blocking freeways. My argument was that anyone stuck on the freeway would be motivated negatively toward whatever the blockage was supposed to be about, and that furthermore, nothing about a freeway even began to indicate what cause the blockers were intending to highlight. In fact, if I don't say here what the cause was, in future years no one will be able to figu...
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