Personally I think Burke brings a varied background, and though often lengthy, some knowledgeable posts.

For those posts that irritate me, from whomever, I sometimes respond....usually not, but accept their right to be (in my view) anywhere from a complete idiot to just ignorant.

many decades ago my wife provided me with a bit of insight that helped her, and I have adopted it with some occasional success.

She arrived in this country as a stateless refugee. In my parents time the term would have been DP.
She came from a country where you could be imprisoned for reading Orwell, or Solzhenitsyn, or Michnik etc. Imprisoned for even having such works in your possession, etc.

It drove her nuts, for some time, that in a country where you could read anything from Lenin to Hitler to Marx to Dostoevsky to Miłosz, people read Daniel Steele. Aargh!
She finally made peace of it with this:
"Being free means you are free to be as ignorant as you wish".

So, if we are free, then people are free to be as ignorant, as annoying, and as wrong as can be.
So...to both yourself and JBurke...carry on.