How many people's minds have you changed on political issues in the past few years?

I wonder this same thing every time I see arguments/disagreements on this site or any other.
I am not too interested these days in convincing anybody of anything in regards to politics.
I also have no desire to bitch or gloat about them either.
In person discussions about these things are a bit more interesting to me anyway…a bit more respectful, I have found.

Probably none. But then, my social media tends to be, by design, the much despised “echo chamber”. For me it is relaxation time, so I don’t want people I don’t already like being on my Facebook. And the chances are pretty good that if I see someone espousing ideas and practices that I find abhorrent, I don’t like them.
I don’t argue about these things in person anymore.
I might, here on fluther, if I am in the mood, but I don’t expect to change anybody’s mind.

I am probably about 30 years older than you, @ANef_is_Enuf, and I grew up in a family and social environment where my values were wildly different from the people around me, and after years of trying (and failing) to understand and work with such wildly differing mores, I am just too tired to care to try anymore.

I will leave all that to you younger, more vigorous ones. :-)

None!
Politics bores me to death & back.

None, but I don’t expect I will in these particularly polarized and antagonistic times. I never argue on FB and like @canidmajor, my FB friends are friends with fairly similar views to mine. I generally stay off political discussions here but sometimes need to shoot my mouth off. Those are the times when to stay silent feels like being complicit but I don’t expect to change anyone’s mind and I won’t go back and forth ad nauseum.

Perhaps in person one may be more effective but I find with the few friends I have whose views differ widely from mine, we just don’t discuss politics any more.

I have no idea, and the number, if there is one, doesn’t matter to me. I’m probably in the minority on this, but I don’t have to agree with you to care about you.

Many of liberal friends AND my conservative friends are all fully secure in their belief that they know EVERYTHING in detail of any legislation passed or unpassed, any act of the House or Senate, every military action, every threat to our country, etc….

There’s literally no point in trying to say anything in regards to politics now, even with unbiased facts. Neither side believes it or will educate themselves beyond sound bites, talking heads and memes. The few who do take more time to learn are so biased, they put their spin on facts to fit their agenda or political ideals.

So I don’t bother anymore, what’s the point when Joe Schmo from Kokomo knows everything already? And I’m not angry in the slightest, just sad and disturbed.

Zero

I doubt I’ve changed any. trump, on the other hand, has converted thousands of Republicans to Democrats.

@Dutchess_III I’m not sure that a president’s affiliation causes people to change parties. It more likely changes the party that they vote for in a specific election is based upon what causes they support and/or who they are running against, at least if they are remotely in-tune to candidate causes.

One, my sister used to be a Trump supporter.

Who had more to do with it @YARNLADY? You or trump’s idiotic words and actions?

I sent her the reports, and she finally got the picture.