

That may still work for the young ones, but the olders are beyond saving. We tried to educate them, and they refused. They called evidence-based knowledge “conspiracies” and new ideas “woke liberal trash”.
The days of being nice and diplomatic are over. It did not work. Like-minded people are threatened with deportation and death.
We have reached the point of active self-defense.
Not that unusual. e.g. TOR started as a governement project. it was invented in the U.S. Naval Research Lab.