Thank you Penguin, you are my ally. Reminder: you can't argue with an idiot. You are a thoughtful and authentic independent thinker, and clearly you side with humanity on political issues, therefore slightly left of center and siding with fairness and common sense. This leaves plenty of room to your left, for more radical thinking and in some cases, loony toons angry ranters who do not deal in facts but instead fling emotions and groupthink lines. These people will attack anyone who doesn't agree with them. They will call you names and assign you labels. Ever since Montessori school where they received participation trophies for showing up to school, they have been unable to cope with any kind of rejection or dissent from their non-original point of view. Worry not: none of these people will ever rise to a position of power and influence, and none of them will ever be your boss or control your life. You are free to attack them, ignore them, show compassion, maybe send them a teddy bear. But you probably won't ever convince them to think for themselves.