20 sats \ 3 replies \ @cryotosensei 2 Jun \ on: Advice to USA and Germany from Argentina econ
In the rare occasions in which you did convince someone to change his POV, how did you do so?
Interesting question, the answer is pretty creepy: it isn't rare to make someone change his PoV. Even the most stubborn fundamentalist will end up completing the reasoning by himself if you start him by a simple logic train of thought. That's not the problem, the problem is what happens afterwards: even if they arrive there by themselves, when faced with the reality that they have been believing with passion something that's not only completely wrong but it's the very cause of what they thought they were solving by defending it, people will immediately reverse their mental gears as if the conversation never happened, and will repeat what they said at the very beginning as if trapped in a logic loop. At most, and not less creepy, some will answer "yes you are right, but still I believe (...)". That happens because the mass of people isn't logical about what they stand for, but emotional. So that much, that here in argentina many parents and grandparents voted for Milei, even with extreme disgust, solely because of an emotional attachment to their sons who supported him. And that was the secret of Milei's victory, as I explained here.
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I actually feel goosebumps reading this. I imagine macho, hardened, tough-as-nails men letting go of their decades-old belief. not because they necessarily subscribe to Milei’s ideology, but because they go along with their sons n hope that by doing so, will give their offspring a better future.
Our incumbent government is doing a decent job, but the main opposition party is broadening its scope of influence. I can’t imagine my parents’ generation voting for some politician just because their children prefer him. Voting here is still largely based along generational lines
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That's exactly one of the key factors that made possible the impossible here, as I mention in that other post. Thank god you don't depend on that yet, but you will. Voting a given party because your ancestors did so was the norm here before that radical change that saved us against all odds (even against the parents themselves...)
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