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We keep trying to fight a fair fight and “win” the arguments that are not intended to be defensible at all... the arguments just are and we continue to battle them with logic, process and rule-of-law.

You are mostly right, the non-logic/inconsistency in our system can bee seen at all levels, but I find it nowhere more sharply illustrated than in law/government. Consider the New Mexico State Constitution:

Art I, Sec. 6. [Right to bear arms.] No law shall abridge the right of the citizen to keep and bear arms for security and defense, for lawful hunting and recreational use and for other lawful purposes, but nothing herein shall be held to permit the carrying of concealed weapons. No municipality or county shall regulate, in any way, an incident of the right to keep and bear arms.

Now the meaning here is obvious, especially the second sentence, which bars cities and counties from 'regulating, in any way' weapons -- Yet every municipal and county courthouse I have seen has strict prohibitions against weapons posted. This is obviously contrary to the constitution, and while I assert that these prohibitions are illegitimate, pause for a moment and gauge your gut-reaction to that notion: that people should be able to take weapons into the courtroom. That panic caused by subtle terror, that little discontent, is exactly the thing that the government wants -- unthinking, emotional outcry against something that dissents from their approved policies.

I've had discussions with law enforcement officers about this contradiction and they will almost invariably make the excuse "we don't allow weapons in schools either" -- there's also a State Statute prohibiting firearms on school [university] campuses; despite that the first sentence says "no law shall abridge the right of the citizen to keep and bear arms for security and defense".

I've had discussions with lawyers about challenging such statutes and their response is that it cannot be done w/o violating the statute. And thus we come full-circle: the Powers That Be have instilled a sort of implicit emotional check-system in the majority of the population so that it is "fellow slaved that keep you bound to the plantation" [to use the metaphor].