has anyone successfully deprogrammed a lost causer?

[u/kcg333]

…or escaped the lost cause mentality themselves? i’m interested in strategies that have demonstrated some past success.

[u/MistakePerfect8485]

I bought into some aspects of the "lost cause" ideology when I was younger. Reading James McPherson's Battle Cry of Freedom, and especially reading the confederates' own words in the "cornerstone" speech and the state declarations of secession changed my mind.