For any given topic, there is a really small minority of people who are open for rational arguments and with whom you can and should discuss. Also, you can disc

For any given topic, there is a really small minority of people who are open for rational arguments and with whom you can and should discuss. Also, you can discuss with the undecided and the impressionable. The art is to recognize when somebody is not open to arguments. There is no need to argue e.g. that your country has plenty of resources and it is the ethical thing to do to accept refugees, when the other person just places zero value on their lives and is openly racist. What is completely rational for that person is insane for you and vice versa. In that situation you can switch away from discussion on eye level and it just becomes a power play. Try to "win" the discussion in any way, look good to bystanders, convince those who can be convinced. Amplify the voices that you want to amplify and silence the others. It sounds horrible to write this out loud, but so much of political discussion realls is not a scientific exchange of facts, but just power games.