Your political opinions are disjointed; the positions you hold in no way line up with the labels you apply to yourself. When you talk about politics, it sounds like someone live-tweeting the writer's room at Last Week Tonight on a particularly unproductive day.
Your every thought was spoon-fed to you by a group of propagandists who want you dead. Every conversation we have feels to me like digging through a pile of excrement looking to find out what a sick animal had for its last meal. That's how distasteful it is, finding the regurgitated chunks of headline you half-understood, and how easy it is to identify the corny chunks of Sam Bee tweets and blood-red WaPo opinion column titles.
When you asked me to read a technical manual and summarize it for you, I empathized with your learning disorder and helped you out - don't you goddamn dare claim what little you've read of contemporary politics or current events is even on the same plane of validity as my own. When you patronizingly say "No one is entitled to their own facts", I agree, but you mean the ones you were given rather than than the Truth. You imagine yourself a free-thinker, a scientist, and the truth is you question nothing and do not think at all.
I know you're trying to justify your position in the company during layoff season, but I have half a mind to make your job look unnecessary instead of helping you prove how necessary it is, even knowing it will make my own long days even longer.
I doubt I'm the only one who ends a day at work feeling like this. If you read it, thanks for listening to me vent.
You're clearly a reasonable person and the fact that you're saying it here rather than unpacking it at work speaks to your character.
But it sounds like you're propping up a burden that could turn toxic. If it slipped, unintentionally, that you felt the way all of us here do, would you trust this person to return your patience and respect, or go running to HR?
I can regulate.
More importantly, I'm essentially irreplaceable - the number of people who can do what I do is small, and we're all working (paid) overtime already.
Perhaps more importantly, I don't think this coworker is malicious, just an NPC.
I don't know if I could justify separating the two TBH. As long as they're going to unthinkingly parrot the propaganda, they're going to be a conduit for the malice of the propagandists.
They're a bomb primed to go off and the trigger is firmly in the hands of people who have already demonstrated great malice to anyone who disrupts their narrative, I don't see them as any less dangerous than someone harboring personal malice. Either disarm that bomb or move it where it can't reach you if you don't intend to be forced to conform to the demands of their narrative.