Out of a sense of duty, rather than any real hope of being understood, I will review the action.
You posited an innate ability to recognize reason.
I pointed out that if there were such an innate ability, demonrats would not be elected.
The implication of that is that people would not vote for demonrats if they had an innate ability to recognize reason, because they would see reason on the right and not the left.
However, demonrats have in fact been elected. It must follow, therefore, that people possess no such innate ability to recognize reason.
End of argument. Selah.
You, however, responded to the foregoing with this: “In this you propose that unreasonable people would vote for reasonable candidates?”
How in the world could anyone get that from the exchange repeated above? I said that demonrats are shown to be unreasonable by the fact that they vote for unreasonable candidates. Where, in anything I said, is any implication that “unreasonable people would vote for reasonable candidates?”
People who vote for reasonable candidates are acting reasonably. (I shouldn’t have to insert a disclaimer to the effect that no man is perfectly reasonable, but I think I’d better, may God help the United States.)
That notwithstanding, the central deception here is the sleight-of-hand by means of which you switched the discussion from one of how people would act with or without an innate “ability to recognize reason,” to one of “reasonable people” versus “unreasonable people.” Or do you fail to see the difference?
You see, even without an innate “ability to recognize reason” (and we did just establish that there is no such ability, in case you didn’t notice), people can learn to recognize reason or even to use reason correctly. Once again, reasonable with no innate ability.
Even—no, especially—those who are intelligent in other areas can be pewling morons in, for instance, moral philosophy, and that accounts for “intelligent” demonrats.
Conversely, those who are pewling morons pretty much across the board can get lucky and be taught to hold reasonable positions, and that accounts for the small percentages of stupid Republicans and Conservatives.
Of course, once Satan’s little energizer bunnies get their hooks into a moron, there’s no reasoning with him.
“...a moron, there’s no reasoning with him.”
This much we can agree on.