How do you negotiate with crazy people?

[andrewducker]

• 67 percent of Republicans (and 40 percent of Americans overall) believe that Obama is a socialist.
• 57 percent of Republicans (32 percent overall) believe that Obama is a Muslim
• 45 percent of Republicans (25 percent overall) agree with the Birthers in their belief that Obama was "not born in the United States and so is not eligible to be president"
• 38 percent of Republicans (20 percent overall) say that Obama is "doing many of the things that Hitler did"
• Scariest of all, 24 percent of Republicans (14 percent overall) say that Obama "may be the Antichrist."

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I mean, I know a lot of, say, Conservatives in the UK have beliefs I don't agree with.  But the vast majority of them, so far as I can tell, just have different experiences to me, and different opinions about how things should be organised.  They don't believe that the leader of the oppositon is the fucking antichrist, or other things that can be disproved by 30 seconds with Google.

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[meihua.livejournal.com]

Btw - I'm also cool with yelling at people with stupid politics, and indeed kicking them off facebook or whatever. I mean it's not a duty to engage in negotations with people who are stomping on your head, and anyone's got the right to scream "FUCK YOU" at them, I know I do often enough. But if one wants to talk to them... hell, thinking of them as crazy is just a really bad place to start. They think what they think for reasons, they consider themselves rational person, they have consistent worldviews. If one wants to "negotiate" - then that's all gotta be taken into account.