I agree with this. My dad was a union president so politics have been a part of my life and dinners for as long as I can remember. My sister and I both went on to be very heavily involved in debate clubs and I don’t think that’s a coincidence.
With that said, I think it’s also important to teach people about when it’s fruitful to debate and when it’s not. I think it’s important to teach others how to take care of themselves, and that often includes not being around people whose views, votes, and rhetoric are antithetical to your core beliefs. For example, I cannot and will not tolerate people who believe that PoC or women (for an extreme example) are inferior humans. To me, there’s really just no reasoning with people who firmly believe in biological racism and/or sexism. So I divorce myself from those “debates” and people.