You cannot reason with the unreasonable. The only way to get through to them is to undo the brainwashing that they've suffered over the last 4-6 years.

It also doesn't help that nearly all mainstream media is propaganda in the US. All of it. Both sides. Propaganda with an agenda.

Until we can fix the propaganda machines, there's no way to undo the brainwashing.

Until the brainwashing has been undone, there is nothing you can do or say to them that will get them to stop being the way they are being.

Sorry, but I do not share your optimism. It is getting so bad that our only option may just be to separate the US into two separate nations, or, another civil war.

Either way, it's not going to be as simple as 'just be nice to them'. "I know they're coughing in your face and screaming profanities at you because you're wearing a mask by choice, but you must be nice!"

No. I'm done being nice.