No, he doesn't respect at least me (or seemingly anyone) and I can show him actual government webpages or whatever and he'll just pretend to agree and then revert back to whatever his initial position was with his mouth-breather coworkers. Talking with people like him (and my aunt on my mother's side is the same) isn't dialogue where there's interplay of information and ideas, but instead I get to uncover what his internal prior belief is that's already established and based on nothing (AKA a feeling) that's somewhere in his subconscious. He talks until his belief is uncovered and then he'll just keep restating that belief over and over in a recursive loop until I get pissed off.