How (not) to win over the angry

Important observation from an interesting Washington Post piece on why Trump voters are so angry:

“I don’t think that what you do is give people more information. Because they are going to interpret it through the perspectives they already have. People are only going to absorb facts when they’re communicated from a source that they respect, from a source who they perceive has respect for people like them.

“And so whenever a liberal calls out Trump supporters as ignorant or fooled or misinformed, that does absolutely nothing to convey the facts that the liberal is trying to convey.”

This found in a thought-provoking post explaining Why We Should Listen To Racists, with some further interesting observations, worth a read.