The right needs to stop thinking of these as just “silly naive children who will grow up once they understand practical realities”. Their ideology is not remotely moral even in theory (indeed it is even worse in theory than it is in practice, section B.1.7), and none of their beliefs would be regarded as normal in any serious society.
Nor is there any “symmetry” between the right and the left like “one believes in change the other believes in tradition” etc—these are memes used by the Left (and stupidly repeated by right-wingers) to legitimize their ideology in the view of their subjects (you) and frame the debate in terms favourable to themselves (by classifying any right-winger who does not fit that mould as far-right, reactionary, evil or whatever), not different from “one believes in Allah one believes in Bhagavān” style secularism.
They are objectively not stupid—they in fact enjoy overwhelming dominance among the global Elite Human Capital (as hegemonic ideologies generally do). It doesn’t take much intelligence to understand basic things like: communism is bad, Muslim terrorism is bad and you shouldn’t incentivize it by responding with sympathetic coverage, building things is good, the only value of the environment lies in its enjoyment by human beings, you shouldn’t take away whatever work opportunities the poor have in the name of stupid wordceling concepts, etc.
Nobody thinks of themselves as the villain: nonetheless evil exists, and you shouldn’t suicidally empathize with it. Sure, Leftists and liberals have beautiful rationalizations for all their rotten beliefs. “Those work opportunities are terrible, they lack labor dignity—the employers should do better!” “we don’t love terrorists, we just think they deserve basic human rights and Muslims shouldn’t be discriminated against!” This should be completely expected: Left-liberalism is the hegemonic ideology, which enjoys overwhelming support among the very-literate Midwit Human Capital of course they will have very extensive and convincing defences of everything they believe in.
Sure, people aren’t born evil, they are the products of the culture they are born into (mainly the society at large, and also their immediate families). This applies to all evil—whether to a Leftist fanatically devoted to the worship of poverty, a Muslim who supports the terrorism and violence against non-Muslims committed by his community or a Nazi who wants to genocide Jews. That is not a reason to sympathize with them.You will never hear a leftist say “How much money would you need to let your children become a saṅgh pracārak or right-wing activist?”, but you will hear right-wingers joke all the time: “How rich would you need to be to be OK with your child becoming a gender studies major?”
The leftist hates the saṅgh pracārak and sees him as the enemy, while the RW mocks the leftist activist and sees her as merely a waste of money and time.
It is not simply hyperbole or polemic exaggeration to say: you do not hate them enough—you think you do, but you don’t. That statement actually means something. Your child becoming a Leftist is as bad as your child converting to Islam—and your child becoming a passionate Leftist activist or gender-studies major is as bad as your child becoming a terrorist.
Leftism is a religion. It is an evil and inverted religion which sacralizes backwardness and tears down everything of value in the worship of that backwardness. It is the global hegemonic ideology. It is a transnational and fundamentally treasonous ideology. All of these facts have consequences.