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I spent much of Trump's term trying to understand and reason with the right wing magats on social media. The vast majority were complete idiots, unable to spell (even with spell check), use capitalization, or write a sentence, much less a complete paragraph that made any sense.
After hundreds of exchanges three things became pretty clear:
They gloried in the fact that Trump had become president despite (or often because of) the fact he was an adulterous, thrice divorced, repeatedly bankrupt, lying pervert that gloried in sexually assaulting women.
Their primary incentive was flat out cruelty. They wanted to inflict as much pain as they could on the "other". They hated pretty much everyone who wasn't a white Christian and that hate was another major motivation.
They believed that the Trump presidency was proof that their ignorance was just as good as other people's knowledge. (Paraphrasing Isaac Asimov.)
Ultimately I learned that there is no reasoning with these people. Sneering is the best they're going to get.
You've described most of my family and half the friends I grew up with. Not a single one of them deserves respect.
Basically boils down to people being hypocrites even with evidence being put in their view. That's the worst part, they think they have some divine mandate but they follow the person who wouldn't piss on them if they were on fire, let alone help them in a time of need.
So the only conclusion that's left is they're bigoted and racist as hell and just want someone to tell them it's okay to act that way. Well it's not, for a functioning society that wants to grow that is. Unfortunately these problems don't have simple solutions but education has left them behind.
IMO they left education behind.
When someone grows up believing that ignorance is as valuable as knowledge there is no reason to ever learn anything. These people are narcissistic to the extreme and they think if they believe something strongly enough it makes it true for everyone. "You cannot reason a person out of a position he did not reason himself into in the first place." - Johnathan Swift.