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I strongly disbelieve that paper means what people are saying it means. The hype immediately triggers my BS-detector. But it's not worth my time to dig around about details.

Now, regarding "It is so strange hardly anyone on the left tries to be persuasive" - this is a sampling effect. Look at how both patient and skilled a person would need to be, in order to do your recommended persuasion. How many could reasonably qualify? Alas, being on the left does not automatically imbue someone with huge alignment bonuses to Charisma and Wisdom.

Note, it's really not clear that one-on-one persuasion is a very good "helping" strategy for political change. People recommend it as a cliche, but there are a lot of obvious problems in practice. The more "political" left does think about this, and has arguments against putting too much emphasis on personal "therapy".

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