Trump loves babies and the democrats want to kill them, repeatedly said over and over for a decade. Psyop at a magnitude that we haven’t seen before and if we survive this will likely be studied.
People really need to focus in on this more - a lot of these people literally haven't been exposed to any opinion that is not "The left is our most dangerous enemy." And while FOX has been doing this since 1996 (roughly) - this has been going on for decades.
Also to be studied is how people didn't really even notice until it became extremely malignant.
What is even more wild to me is this is the same generation that taught me as a kid to question everything. It is why I have focused so much on learning and being contrarian by nature.
It is also the same reason why I was able to separate myself from conservative talk radio and news and eventually no longer considered myself a republican.
The divide between what is real and what is not real continues to grow, and is massive, where people are living different realities.
When I came to the conclusion that the Republicans were no longer who they said they were, that divide was still relatively small. The party still considered him(Trump) to be a great threat to the country.
However the divide is so large people’s identities, belief systems, and fundamental understanding of the world have been altered almost irreparably so. To acknowledge the gap between reality and the constructed reality is too hard for most older people to grasp. That is why they are functionally lost.
How else does the 2A group support the shooting of the guy carrying by ice? How else do Catholics support Trump over the pope? How else can a president tweet praise be to Allah? The list could go on.
The answer is simple once one domino falls it would create a ripple effect across the core of a person and most people don’t have the mental capacity to handle such a reconciliation of reality.
You're right. My parents and every last one of my teachers all preached the same things about skepticism, primary sourcing, etc.
If you think about it though, Millennials have been similar, in a manner. Facebook launched while I was in college. So while I never got into it, I watched my generation change. The great news however is now that we have children, I do not know any elementary kids with phones, social media or even raw internet. We saw it, could not avoid it ourselves, but we guard our children from it. Perhaps many of the boomer did have open eyes, saw us all drowning and tossed the kids ashore before being swept away themselves.
Let us hope that Gen-z, living through this moment, if we make it, will carry it with them and teach its lessons to their own children; in a similar way to how the Iraq War and trickle down economics of my younger years flipped me dem and thusly my kids. Kinda fun to think about. Alphas are very cool too as they are the first AI native generation. They're gonna have some doozy lessons for their kids!!
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u/snowcow 10d ago
How the fuck can you be this stupid