This is the case for most people. People change their opinions when they’re personally affected because first hand personal experience is as real as its going to get.

That video Don’t be a Sucker should be mandatory yearly viewing. It won’t solve everything but people would learn to better recognize the divide and isolate patterns.

Or maybe not. Humans are complicated.

It’s the party of pure selfishness, they do not understand empathy. Until they themselves are affected at all, they won’t understand .