How do I keep running into idiots who are positive they are intelligent?

Does the South no longer require history in schools, or do they just teach "alternative facts?" The Nazis were not really socialists. Only someone with no education would believe that. This site is getting extremely frustrating to be on. How do you converse with someone who is completely ignorant, but is positive they are right? When did we decide that education was bad and that ignorance was cool?

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SW-User

We're living in a seriously anti-fact, anti-intellectual, anti-science moment in this country. It's greatly concerning this is exactly the kind of rejection of rationality and information that people like Stalin, Mao and Hitler used to empower themselves on the backs is citizens who could be manipulated into violence against one another. I hope we can prove to be better and finding our way back to valuing knowledge and critical thought before the shit really hits the fan.