Something I think we can do better here:

Labeling people and putting them in their place was thought of as fun sport on the Bird site. But we should try to have a little more patience here.

Sometimes people just want to be a part of things -- if they are clumsy and we crucify them for trying, that doesn't speak well of us as a society.

Where viable and safe, gently engage instead of dismissing or categorizing people. See the individual. Let's not put up walls before we've even begun.

@BobWilliams I completely agree. What people believe helps best politically / in more abstracted thought and how they actually treat people in practice can also often be a contradictory mess. I don't mean to excuse anything, but it seems better to see the good and question them as to how their seeming compassion lines up with their views of governance than to dismiss the entirety of a person because of what they've come to believe. There's more reasons to that than them always being selfish.