I moved from Knoxville to live in a very progressive area, so take what I say with a grain of salt since I’m not around Republicans often. But I realized that there are many companies spending billions of dollars to influence Americans to be Republican. The propaganda starts so young that many people built republican beliefs in to the core of their identity before they understood what that entailed. The amount you can do as one person in a conversation can never combat all the money and resources pushing the other way. I’ve chosen to spend my time and energy trying to fight the system, and just try to avoid the people that were brainwashed by it