listen to reason

"The legislators and a lot of the people wouldn't listen to reason," said Dr Stewart.

“I hoped to nurture that in him, but even now, he refuses to listen to reason. I told him as much earlier. As you can see by the state of my foyer, he didn’t take it very kindly.”

By the time we get to last year’s “Don’t Look Up,” about an Earth-destroying comet, you can’t even get people to listen to reason.

They might say, "Well, the desired outcome is that we find a way to get the Republicans and Trump to listen to reason and that would in turn break their cult."

But rather than listen to reason she throws her salad and storms off.