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I have tried playing nice with these people - truly, I have. I've listened to their side of the issue, I've given them the benefit of the doubt, and I've engaged with them in good faith for years hoping that compassion and empathy along with facts and science have the capacity to change minds, albeit slowly.
The simple truth is that some people need to be bullied. They need to be ridiculed and made to feel foolish, because otherwise they have no motivation to better themselves.
We, as a collective, have gone too soft on these folk. We treat all of their worst ideas and base impulses as having the same merit as those of a well researched and educated political policy.
Because of that, we're stuck arguing the absurd with morons, desperately trying to convince them that the earth is round, those clouds in the sky are just vaporized water, and vaccines won't give you autism or make you gay, instead of approaching reasonable disagreement like "should we levy a 1% sales tax or issue a one-time bond to pay for necessary infrastructure repair?" and other such sleep-inducing matters you used to be able to find on C-SPAN.