Idealists are high priests of Hypocrisy. They have temples to Hypocrisy, worship Hypocrisy, and persecute heretics against THEIR Hypocrisy established religion.
They espouse ideals that they will not subject themselves to. They say we must all do X, but they themselves go out of their way to not do X. They will never, ever admit they were wrong, and that their Idealistic domination caused great suffering. They cannot admit to having being wrong, because their Idealism is totally based on their primal dogma being the only valid Ideal, whatever consequent facts may show.
Don't let them get away with Hyper Hysterical Hypocrisy. Listen to what they say, study what they write, and confront them with their contradictions. Demand that they apply their principles to themselves, their family and their people.
Realists do not persecute, because they do not need to persecute. Realists need merely to point out the fallacies of Idealists and demand they they subject themselves to the effects of the policies they want to force OTHERS to endure in order to expose and isolate them.
Repeat after me: I challenge you to prove you really believe that.
At first, training to be more realist from a condition of severe Idealism is like emerging from the womb. One feels cold, without shelter, cries, has a link to assumptions cut and possibilities increase a million fold. My God, chaos, freedom, choices, responsibility!
But after a while of getting accustomed to thinking in a proper way, asking the right questions, recognizing patters in human group behavior and such dull technicalities, it becomes second nature.
It is at first easy to be Idealist and submit to Idealist demands, intimidation and doublethink in an Idealist controlled society. It is at first hard to acquire realist discipline, honesty and responsibility. The unstoppable immense forces of reality/nature make it ultimately easy to be a realist, and really hard to be an Idealist.
That is why truly free debate and research is almost always completely won by realists. Idealists both know and refuse to know this, instinctively feeling that it undermines their domination, and therefor go for psychological (soft) warfare or physical (hard) warfare against heretics to the fashionable Great Hypocrisy of the time.
Idealist: Do as I say, not as I do.
Realist: Do what you say.
Idealist: No, I have X reasons for not doing that.
Realist: Of course you do.
Idealist: You MUST believe this.
Realist: Prove it.
Idealist: Burn the unbeliever!
