I was buying something at a small shop and for some reason the shop owner decided to talk about how much the government ruins business through taxes, how the government shouldn’t be in business, and how there is too much socialism in government. Maybe I look like a libertarian lol.
I did my best to ask him what he meant to try and get him thinking and it seemed to help a bit. I even pulled a “any socialist I’ve talked to doesn’t believe in any of that”.
I seem to have a lot of these conversations, even when I’m minding my own business. Have any of you had luck with breaking down preconceived notions others may have? I’d just like to be better prepared since apparently this is just something that happens to me.
I try to pick one thing with people.
Mainly because if you let people get a read on you they’re always gonna be wrong, because many USians and Canadians are not intellectual, to put it mildly, and quite hostile.
But also because they can remember one point.
That’s a good point. I can talk to a shop owner like they’re a shop owner, but they have no idea who I am.
But then why talk politics at me in the first place lol.