...and their own logic.

Don't appear to be arguing. Agree where you can.
But slip in emotional triggers, because only emotion works with simpletons.

tRumpanzee: "Oh, finally eggs are coming down."

Us: "Yeah, finally. You like coffee? Now that will go wild because we'll be paying 50% more on Brazilian coffee." (Notice the use of "we" and not "you"; for the emotion of solidarity, and no blaming -- they'll get around to that.)

t: "But the coffee companies will pay it!"

Now you can let a little logic creep in by putting it in personal emotional terms, and disagree by seeming to agree:

Us: "Sure. Say you have a coffee company. You have three options: 1) Sell to other countries and skip the US, 2) Pay the tariffs yourself and go out of business, 3) Raise prices because you have an addicted market. Which would you choose?"

t: "But I'd start growing coffee in Hawaii!"

Us: "And you would just wait years for coffee bushes to grow with no money coming in? Me, I'm stocking up on coffee while I can. Are you going to do that too?" (Puts it back in the here-and-now, prompting action that can only make them think of and acknowledge tariff impacts. Stocking up gets emotions involved. Buy five cans and cut back on date night?)


(There are other arguments to use but they require some receptivity to economic logic: Land in Hawaii would become hellishly expensive as every US coffee company suddenly wants to grow there. Or they'd just raise prices.)

Then failed to recognize it.

the rest simply recite bumper stickers given to them weekly, and have pretty much shut down when it comes to examining all things and holding fast to that which is good in favor of being told who, what, and why to hate.

Idolatry (of others or the self) is a leading reason I'll dismiss anyone's opinion, regardless.

You can't argue with them about anything.

beliefs and can't be shaken loose by using reason. No point in engaging; religion tells them what to think and they robotically submit.

want to make the effort to understand. Religion teaches sanity. Reason. Not blind faith and ignorance. It's the people or pastors or even their leaders who get it wrong. The final word is always the Bible, but that 2,000 year old text takes a lot of time to understand, and religious people are as lazy as anyone else. More's the pity.

This is the best on sanity -- emphasizing the human intellect -- I've ever read, by Frank Sheed:
(sorry I can't get an image with smaller pixillation)

I've got a lot to say, and if they're afraid to hear it, too bad. (It's called a corrective remonstrance, and I've got many.)