I had the occasion to strike up a political conversation with a cop this afternoon, and knowing that he's a Republican, I thought I'd try to bring him around to a more progressive point of view.
To make a long story short, I got him to admit (without contention) that collective bargaining would be helpful to him if he had the right, that the middle class is shrinking because of current trade policies, that Bush's immigration policy would lead to de facto Mexican slavery, that Bush cares too much about corporations, and that Mexico would be much better served if their businesses and utilities were regulated as much as ours are.
Yet, no luck, even though he actually volunteered most of that. The Republican propoganda machine is a mighty foe, indeed.
Has anybody actually ever had any success with this kind of thing before?