How to talk to MAGA relatives over the holidays

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34. Is it really true that he has "promised the moon"?

I don't think so. What he has promised is that a lot of bad things will stop happening. Those bad things, of course, are not even happening. Space lasers are not affecting our elections. Haitian immigrants are not eating their neighbors' dogs and cats. Democrats are not making hurricanes happen. Hillary Clinton is not running a child sex ring out of the basement of a pizza restaurant. What the orange con man has promised, over and over on the campaign trail, is that these ridiculous fictitious bad things are happening and that he'll stop them, not so much that he'll make good things happen. He's been making his incredibly gullible followers believe, through months and years of repetition, through ubiquitous social media that are devoid of any fact-checking, through word-of-mouth within their right-wing bubble, that these CRAZY things are really happening, and that he'll stop them. What we really need to do to stop these crazy notions from continuing to take hold in our collective public consciousness is to confront them firmly. "Oh come on, Uncle Fred, do you REALLY believe that is happening? Are you REALLY that GULLIBLE? How easy is it to make you believe stupid ideas like that? WHERE did you get that crazy notion? Grow up, man. LISTEN to how crazy that sounds." We need to confront these people with their own MADNESS, make them see how crazy they have become.

— Ron