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Never give the impression that you take their political views seriously. The smug ones have created a false self-identity around politics. False because they think the height of understanding is reading the New York Times sometimes and listening to "the experts", meaning think tanks and academics cozy with journalists.
Liberals just trust "institutions" and anything that has existed long enough to have "prestige" that grants it credibility. Credibility is acquired through how many other liberal institutions grant it credibility. This allows them to outsource all political thinking to "experts" from these extremely trustable sources that all gained their own "prestige" and "credibility" through exactly the same thing.
It's an Ouroboros and one of the first things that has to be broken to pull a liberal out of it. The minds of liberals are colonised, there is no cognitive sovereignty in their heads because they give away that sovereignty to others in all of these institutions.
I tend to just rub their nose in the Iraq WMD propaganda campaign and similar complete fabrications until they shut up.
Gotta love the WMDs smell in everything bad libs believe about China despite the mountains of evidence China is doing pretty well and getting better and the US is nosediving vs the mountains of trust-me-bros about China's crimes against humanity.