Communicate with Respect It is really hard to do that when the other side has shown zero interest in carrying on a respectful and honest conversation . Like , even when I try to it just comes off as patronizing because I can ' t fake respecting a movement that spent the last 18 months lying about and insulting MuslimsMexicanspeople with disabilitiestransgendered peoplescientistsetc . , and now is trying to pretend that any of that was justified because of their perceived economic anxiety . I can understand that the world ' s a crazy and scary place these days and that there ' s been some rapid and gigantic shifts in the economy and social norms that left a lot of people behind , but for the life of me I can ' t understand how I ' m supposed to accept that as an excuse for willfully malicious politics .