Back in the early 70's, I briefly attended the U. of Oklahoma.  Today, a friend sent me this:

  http://www.normantranscript.com/localnews/local_story_262043519   A fundamentalist Christian group staged a "We Hate the Jews" rally on Rosh Hashanah.  At first, I found it scary and troubling, but as I read on, I also saw how some of the students reacted, (with humor and derision towards the protest) and that a "Hell's Angels" type motorcycle group tried to stymie the protest by gunning their engines to drown out the protests. (Which seems straight out of some movie script.)   I think this is another story to add to support the notion that what's happening 'out there' is not just a black-white racial divide. It's an ignorant vs. educated battle that's brewing.   What is the cure for stubbornly, pridefully ignorant?  How do you deal with people that oppose you for who you are, and justify it through a mis-interpretation of their religion? Is the only solution for the educated to calm the ignorant by appeasement? Was that movie, "Idiocracy" more prophetic than we'd like to believe?   This polarization seems to me to be beyond mending, and yet, it is what the GOP is leaning towards embracing.  And that, to me, is very scary.