Winning Arguments

We see a lot of extreme confrontations on television and on the news, but a lot of the time, we hardly ever think those situations will happen to us.

(Disclaimer: the picture portrays that only men in beanies are angry liberals, which is not always the case. This blog post is not a bash against men in beanies. It was the only somewhat dramatic picture I could find of young people looking as if they were in a dispute.)

Anyway, I am thankful nothing that extreme has ever happened to me personally, but I have heard of situations like what we see on TV happen to other people in my life.

So, what do we do when we are wearing our favorite politician's hat, t-shirt, have their bumper sticker on our cars or mention their name in public?

The most powerful and important "weapon" is knowledge for anything, really, but mostly in political confrontations.

Liberals passionately loathe facts. They run on feelings and emotions. If you ask them about a fact, or "rebuttal" their comment to you with a fact, they will lose their minds without a doubt.

All you have to do is point them in the direction of factual evidence and you've won the argument they brought on themselves by being offended at your thread of cotton or by a conversation they eavesdropped on.

Unfortunately it's that simple. There are many ways to quickly gain factual knowledge. A few too many times I was in college and a classmate or professor started talking about a political topic I knew just enough about not to have a single fact available.

This is going to sound very nerdy, but I nerd out on the news. I began listening to Dallas political talk radio, listening to podcasts by Ben Shapiro, Allie Stuckey, and Dana Perino. I started watching the news by my favorite talk show hosts like Tucker Carlson, and Laura Ingraham.

It takes a little while to really get a foundation of facts to grab from at any given moment when you're on the spot. After a season of getting your facts from your favorite source, you'll be wishing someone would come at you.

Hopefully this helps, and I would love to know of a situation that happened to you when you were informed enough to "win" an argument by a liberal.

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