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Kenri posted...

I don't see what people who were genuinely good beforehand got out of this stuff initially, though. Like, if I turn on the TV and hear Tucker Carlson, my reaction is "this sucks shit" and then I turn it off. But a lot of people keep watching, and what am I supposed to think of that if not "well, they're probably being told something they already like"?

Getting them very young is the indoctrination process that works on mass shooters. Appealing to things like "Christian and family values", '"patriotism", "strong work ethic" is what works on others. And certainly their own natural dissatisfaction with their lives and fear of others.

It's just an empirical fact that the conservative leaders of this country went from Eisenhower to Trump. A shift like that is simply not possible with an informed electorate.

Let's put it this way: you find out someone is a scientologist - is your first instinct to call them a massive piece of shit or a victim?

That's not to rob anyone of their agency, and hopefully I made that clear. But you can indeed acknowledge someone as having agency of their shitty choices and still recognize their being a victim of something larger.