High schoolers do not have strong opinions about economics or foreign policy (as opposed to social policy like abortion or gay marriage) and are therefore very willing to listen to someone they trust who does, like me. When politics is discussed in my clique, it usually comes down to me saying something and everyone agreeing. I am a rather persuasive person in real life (I recall a rather heated argument about Libya with my English teacher, where I was actually against intervention and she was for it, where I managed to convince the entire class that Gaddafi was preferable to the rebels, and f**k the mainstream media).
So you think you convinced a bunch of disinterested adolescents.
And a busy English teacher moved on from your protracted political speech.If spending the rest of the period (30 minutes) discussing it and then moving on the next day (although the subject did periodically recur), then she certainly did, and if I only imagined people in the class repeating my talking points, then it was just a figment of my imagination.
You know Vosem sometimes when adults just keep quiet and let you finish saying what you are saying and then move on it is not because you convinced them.
Sometimes that is the case, but it was clearly not the case this time.
I generally don't initiate political conversations at work. And if someone else engages me I never tell them my true feelings until I've ascertained theirs and I have some level of comfort they aren't going to blab my opinion all over the place. Even then most of stuff I say on this forum stays in my head. Most of the time when the extremists engage me in screwball conversations at work I just furrow my brow and say things like "that's very interesting" and "I really need to look into that." They walk away thinking they converted me to a Fox Noise acolyte and I can get on with my day.
I'm pretty sure most of the people at my work vote. Only about three of them have come out and had ridiculous off the wall political conversations with me that made zero factual sense. Two of the conversations were particularly disappointing. One person I like a lot. I really enjoy spending time with them. Another one I have the utmost respect for as far as work. They are awesome. They probably all think I agree with them since I get along with them. Anyway it keeps the peace and lets me be around people I can learn a lot from.
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