persuasion

After losing the 2024 presidential election by razor-thin margins in the swing states, Democrats have staged a wholesale retreat, apparently concluding that cowardice and complicity are better political tactics than persuasion and protest.

MacAlister said he "wanted this campaign to be a campaign of persuasion to put this issue right at the centre of the national debate and bring that debate into Parliament".

Lawyers for the Biden administration have said there is a difference between legitimate persuasion and inappropriate coercion, and that communication channels between government and social media companies had to remain open for public safety reasons.

Then again, you can be brought to tears watching ordinary citizens of different races, creeds, political persuasions and religions join with police and firefighters, including currently incarcerated inmates, to help people they don’t know.

Similarly, decades of research on personalized persuasion highlight how appealing to a person’s psychological traits — e.g. their personality or moral values — can sway hearts and minds without the need for content that is factually inaccurate.