"I recently evolved into the "crazy zone," in which I understand too much about how the world works to have a fruitful conversation with someone who thinks we live in a Republic, elections are designed to be fair, the news is real, and free speech still exists in the United States.
Imagine a normie seeing what I just wrote."
https://twitter.com/ScottAdamsSays/status/1770791666875604998
You should have said toilet paper. 😄
In all seriousness, I have tried a tactic of if you consider yourself to be open-minded, then you have to be open to ideas and opinions that may from the get-go sound absurd. It may turn out that is the case, BUT you have to at least give it a look. Because no one likes to consider themselves close-minded. It is kind of a check to get them to at least think.