[maxbendick]

This may very well be true, but only as a post-hoc explanation.

Reactionary politics (all politics, really) have their home at a subconscious level. Politics are ways of feeling and acting. It's an error to think that if the other side had more "common sense", they'd see the light. Even animals have politics. Only the most _surface-level_ politics can be affected through logical explanations.