If facts and logic could stop the poz, Thomas Sowell would have done it single-handedly 50 years ago. Yet, the west has only accelerated away from reality towards insanity. Where is your evidence that rational debate has ever been a driving force of policy? Technic advancement isn't politics, and there is no such thing as scientific governance. If you haven't noticed, Science™ can't even figure out what genders are anymore because governing elites have dictated it as such.

Spez; Moldbug's Cathedral is good starting point for understanding how western government functions, but you should really pickup Mosca, Pareto, de Jouvenel, and Sam Francis for an more in-depth analysis. Bernays and Lippmann give a wonderful breakdown of how the "invisible controllers" of public opinion engineer consent.