@MirkoS77: its simple. A democracy can't work by excluding 30% of the population. Specially if it turns violent.
And you do little convincing by mercilessly ridiculing and mocking. You only make people push back harder.
And worse, it becomes an instrument for emotional satisfaction through punishment of others. So it leads yourself away from constructively expressing your point of views.
Instead of trying to argue your point (which makes you further analyze it as you express it ), your focus becomes about humiliating the other person.
I think the more important question to ask is: can a democracy work by including 30% of the population who dismiss and reject democratic norms? I don't think people who believe in the Big Lie should even be able to vote.
And I'm not trying to convince when I ridicule, I'm attempting to ostracize. I do so not to people who've made their positions know, but only to those that hold positions that have nothing to do with argument, logic, facts, or evidence, but are predicated solely upon emotionally-driven partisan adherence and stubborn dogmatism that stand in contravention of all of those things. When you're dealing with such individuals, you are long past the point of good-faith discourse.....I treat it as such.
Further, I see nothing wrong with gaining emotional satisfaction from people who are being intentionally stupid and delusional to satiate their own alternate reality worldviews, and I can easily constructively express my own opinions while doing so. One doesn't preclude the other, nor does it impede me from reflections of my own position.
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