I hope this won't be controversial, but last year I made a single page website to try and dissuade people from voting for the Conservative Party in the UK (we h

I hope this won't be controversial, but last year I made a single page website to try and dissuade people from voting for the Conservative Party in the UK (we had a General Election in the UK in June 2017). The site is no longer online because the site's purpose is no longer relevant (the Conservative Pary unfortunately formed a minority government after the General Election). However, I did extract two sections from my website and published them on medium.com: UK General Election 2017: Why we need to change our method of voting https://medium.com/@dontvoteconservativeuk/uk-general-election-2017-why-we-need-to-change-our-method-of-voting-74ac31789910 https://medium.com/@dontvoteconservativeuk/uk-general-electi... UK General Election 2017: Coverage in the media https://medium.com/@dontvoteconservativeuk/uk-general-election-2017-coverage-in-the-media-cfc2d10f451c https://medium.com/@dontvoteconservativeuk/uk-general-electi... The website (and medium.com articles) had absolutely no effect whatsoever. I thought I had made the site as fair as possible. I deliberately avoided linking to any left-leaning newspapers such as The Guardian and The Independent. (I linked only to news reports from The Telegraph - a Conservative Party supporting newspaper.) I linked to figures and research from independent, third-party organisations. None of this mattered. When I shared the site on some politics forums, the reaction from Conservative supporters was negative. One poster even said it had strengthened his resolve to vote for the Conservatives even more! What did I learn from the experience? That you can't persuade people with facts, no matter how dispassionately you present them. Especially on political stories. This is true whether you lean to the left or the right or the centre ground. It's kind of stating the obvious really and you see such behaviour everywhere online, including Hacker News (and yes, I'm just as guilty of such behaviour). As Brexit looms in the UK, I'm thinking of creating a new site. This be very different from my previous site: loud, screaming headlines (much like our national newspapers), more sound-bites, and less detail because, let's be honest, that's what makes people sit up and take notice. Does that make me a hypocrite? Very possibly. If you can't beat them, why not joint them?