The pathology is one that is immune to reason, argument, or dialogue because it has nothing to do with reason, rather it is a soul sickness, a mental illness, akin to what one sees in a cult. This lady does not ride on the back of a motorcycle and sport tattoos but her mental processes are those of a bitch for the Bloods and Crips.
Our job is not to find ways to reason with people like this but find ways to breach the mental moats which immunize them from common sense and reason, much as a psychiatrist would try to break through the metal shields which remove a neurotic from reason. It is pointless to reason with a drunk and it is hopeless to reason with the member of a cult. It is besides the point to call them stupid or uneducated.
They require intervention not negotiation. But our society shrinks from such interventions because we believe in liberty even the right to be wrong. But we pay an awful price for our principles because we render ourselves impotent in the face of an existential threat to our way of life. This cancer is metastasizing and infecting greater and greater portions of our society but we have not found a way to treat it, for it requires treatment not debate. One cannot reason with a member of a cult, that person's sanity can only be restored with an intervention and with isolation from the cult.
We conservatives persist in believing that because we have reason and common sense on our side we should prevail in a civil society. The cult changes all of that. The psychology of collectivism is, in effect, a cult whose whole methodology is to substitute ideology for reason, emotion for judgment, evil for good, right for wrong.
