Debate the actual issues without resolving to writing them off as the incoherent ramblings of racists and xenophobes would be a start.

I have to debate the value of GMO, people aren't racist or xenophobes, but that doesn't make some of their reasoning any less incoherent rambly.

I have to do the same thing with almost every "simply solution" of both the left (basic income, sink the banks, safe space) and the right(free market is best, traditional values, fuck the EU), and everything in between because left-right don't mean much anymore.

And you know something, some things are hard to explain. I wouldn't hold a referendum on internet protocols, jet engine design, or drug safety. So why in the name of all good to we consider that the average person can have a reason opinion about politics or the economy? Why is it wrong to point out that people who get the thick stack of reports might be better informed than someone reading the Daily Mail? I'm not saying "trust the politicians", but fucking Breibart, HufPo and the rest? It's like a tidal wave of echochamber enforced shit.