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      Because the republican mantra is “not my problem if it isn’t happening to me”.

      You also overestimate how much people pay attention to current events. Most voters have no idea what’s going on.

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        Or are brainwashed with Republican owned media, which is most news networks and various things with news in the title. I’ve met and talked to people who are Republican and most are inadvertantly ignorant; they try and keep up with what’s happening but because of where they look they end up with misrepresenting and missing pieces. Left News is also missing pieces, so people tend to talk past each other, which doesn’t help either.

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          all of the MSM are owned by conservatives, is there even source of “left leaning news”, i never heard of one.

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          No.

          If you support harming others who have done nothing other than exist, you can’t blame brainwashing. You’re not a good person, full stop.

          The truth is that a large portion of humans are stupid, selfish, hateful, pieces of shit. It’s why brainwashing works on them; it’s just directing them, not actually changing them.

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            Right. But that’s why they’re fed the excuses “they broke the law coming into the country!” “they committed a crime!” “they had gang tattoos!” when they overstayed a visa or applied for asylum, were unjustly convicted, or had autism awareness tattoos. But they’re fed lies, so in their minds it’s justified.

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              “Anyone who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.”

              This is why it is an individual’s responsibility to be critical of their own and others’ motivations, to attempt awareness of manipulations by others and our own self-deceptions.

              Even the best of my countrymen are not good at any of these things, but people that do not even make the attempt certainly seem to skew toward MAGA.

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      The MAGA members I know are totally down to send folks off to foreign prisons. They don’t think the laws or bill of rights apply to “illegals.” How do they know the person the federal law enforcement officers have detained is the right “illegal” without going to court? They don’t care.