Trying to argue with conservatives.
All that they’re great at is detouring, distancing, playing down, doubling-tripling down, disassociating, strawmen and more illogical fallacies. They can’t take up an honest debate unless there are rules in place that gives them any outs from being pressed when confronted with questions they can’t give truthful answers to.
I’d expand it to arguing with people who don’t want to challenge their postures. It’s the human condition that we substitute thinking with emotion by default, and it takes significant cognitive effort to mitigate that.
I think that’s more a conservative mindset, and I don’t mean in any sort of modern political sense.
That sort of mind is fearful of change, fearful of people and things that aren’t traditional, more easily disgusted, etc. They’re a needed balance to the opposite sort of mind. But goddamn are they stubborn.