Oaktownbear,
You are the MAN! Your ability to clearly and concisely respond is amazing, dare I say legendary, even. As a fan of your reasoned responses in the face of people who obfuscate, change the subject when they don't have a good response, use silly terms to discount fair points(virtue signalling - by which they accuse you of not believing what you say because, what?, they don't believe it?) , ascribe ridiculous stances to others (trump derangement syndrome - code for "you are not allowed to rationally disagree with Trump or you are deranged, therefore I get to discount anything you said"), and generally argue in ways that would get them an "F" in every debate class I ever attended, I have a question:
Why do you bother (not a rhetorical question)? I would consider it heroic, if they were in any way redeemable, or even were unredeemable, but trying to discuss things in a reasoned manner. They don't. I am not criticizing their beliefs, which I think everyone has a right to, I am talking about the manner in which they converse ultimately resorting to ESAD as if that were any kind of argument let alone a convincing one. Maybe you are just way more patient than I am(highly likely
). Maybe you are way more optimistic and feel like suddenly they will get it (highly unlikely, you are way, way to perceptive for that). Maybe you just like the opportunity to state some things for the record (a very commendable motive, if so). I enjoy reading it, but I would not enjoy writing it and so I am genuinely interested to know if you really do or, more generally what your motive is.
An adjunct thought I have is that, though BI is a tiny audience so that no large harm is being done in responding end thus giving them more opportunities to spout their silly ideas over and over (something, they have every right to do - not disputing that), the best way to silence such ridiculousness is to just ignore it. If no one responded to obvious trolling-for-response-looking to inflame posts like the OP made, such posts would die the ignominious death they deserve.
Somewhat relevant XKCD cartoon