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Some people tell me "you just sit these guys down and convince them out of their positions, trust me, it will work"
And then I read this stuff over and over and over again. Write these idiots off for christ sake. Gerrymander them away, shut off fox news, ban their dumb content creators from the internet and lock up every ICE agent in the country forever.
Whatever it takes, make them politcally irrelevant, then you can think about improving something.
I honestly do think quite a bit of it is constant saturation of hate radio and Faux News, combined with loneliness and/or undiagnosed mental disorders.
People are alone in their cars quite a bit and I don't know if you've driven through certain parts of the country, but if you don't have podcasts/satellite radio in your car, there is almost nothing but country music or hate radio in some parts of it. The con elite knew what they were doing when they funded all this stuff, often at a loss.
I bet more than half of the people deep in the conservative cult could be deprogrammed, but I just don't see anything like that happening at scale. And it would be way too easy for them to slip back into old ways, since it's like junk food in a food desert - it's ever-present and easily accessible nearly everywhere, and there is virtually nothing healthy offered to counter that terrible diet, whether it's a food diet or a media diet.