I've been thinking about this a lot recently after i got into an argument today.
I was talking to my friends about random shit that doesn't matter and then they started talking shit on the US(me and these friend's are Americans) . I called them out on this and asked why they were talking about the US in such a way. Then the reason they gave me was about Donald Trump. I told them that if you don't like one person that shouldn't reflect on 300+ million people. So they callef him stupid either way, and i told them that had nothing to do with the US. Since we were on the topic of Trump i asked how he was stupid and they gave me the usual response that he's a racist and that he only cares for himself. So i decided to prove them wrong. I even pulled up some articles i found from google and there response was that " your white of course you would agree". This was pretty stupid because most of them were white and that race shouldn't play a role in the conversation. Also the evidence was right in front of them and they disagreed. I decided to drop it and we hanged out and went our separate ways later.
But all this day it reminded me of something one of my teachers told me a few months back that you canr really win a argument because you can show as much evidence as you want but people will still believe what they want. I pretty much agree with this but im curious to see if you guys think arguments can be won.