Ya. If someone is in a coma, you don't try to teach them ballet.
If I had to jump into a conversation about Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump or whatever, it's usually more enjoyable to me (and symbiotically I feel it does more good) to just engage them on their paradigm, and maybe you offer some little kernel of new thought that's helpful to them in some way, rather than swing for the fences and try to somehow get them to see that it's predicated on violence.