Dan ben Noah, you're one of the smartest people on the forum.
One of the challenges I've faced in socializing is that many very "righteous" people tend to be, well let me put it bluntly, dumb as a brick. They're very nice people, but I can't talk to them about anything complicated or their eyes glaze over. The more intellectual people tend to be left wing. For example I can almost never talk to my righteous Christian friends about science or other serious issues, because it goes over their heads, but the people I can talk about science and other intellectual topics with get angry if I mention my respect for and belief in Biblical morals.
So here are my questions.
One, how do you find smart people who are on your same level of brightness who are also righteous?
Two, do you ever get frustrated by people who you take time to explain a complicated issue to who still don't seem to understand what you said to them?
I've tried to explain about Islam and other issues to people and they don't understand.