The common people are stupid and/or in a cult. 30 years of right wing radio and news has finally culminated in an electorate this stupid and gullible Idiocracy has arrived. The common people want to be lied to, and to believe lies and to act hurtfully toward others. The Democrats cannot turn that huge swath of absolute stupid trash into decent right thinking humans simply by telling them their non- hateful policy proposals.
And the common people avidly support nativist, racist homophobic dickheads - and absolutely buy-in on all the stupidest conspiracy theories that a slow child should be able to figure out.
How exactly do you propose not ‘looking down on them?’ I’d love to hear your theory, because looking down on nativist, racist, homophobic dickheads is what decent people are supposed to do. At least when your efforts to educate them are defeated because they are dedicated to being ill informed haters who taking it as a matter of team and pride, never to look at a different opinion. It’s their brand now. You apparently want Democrats to reward that stupidity and deplorable behavior by agreeing with it. Or pretending it is something that it is not.
But I will give your suggestion - that we try to understand the Klan members and not talk bad about them until we find common ground - (“O.K., we agree to disagree about the lynchings…”) and give it the attention it deserves.