too few people ask this question. I simply cannot get past it, and it scares me

What they say depends on you...It is our job to explain to them what is really going on. We have to take them one at a time verbally shake them. Explain to them that Thomas Paine, Alexis de Tocqueville, George Orwell, Aldous Huxley, and many many others saw this coming. What we are going through isn't new-it is simply new to us. Most people can be reasoned with. Those who can't be reasoned with, simply allow them to go the way you would someone who is determined to live a life of crime. Pity them, because their ignorance will catch up with them