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A friend of mine was raised Republican; he'd say, fiscal Republican. He was certain that people without healthcare could just get treated for free for whatever they needed and that POC brought it all on themselves. Generally, he thought that people were nice and good and would take care of each other as long as the people in need weren't miscreants.
Then he met a nice black girl, got married, and had some kids.
Now he's seeing how they're treated differently when they're not together, and how he's treated differently when he's with her.
How family is now all at odds as the grandparents are still in the old camp and aren't sympathetic to his findings and struggles.
The propaganda is hard to work around. They want to believe that there's good and evil in the world and good prevails. It's what their churches tell them. It's not until each one of them individually experiences hardship that they realize that something is off, and they still remain confused as to what's real and what's now.
they want to believe their evil is good.
and that good in the world is actually evil.
That's the thing though, that's how they wind up with that evil. It's that and the idea that their discomfort is always justified