Losing so called friends over Donnie Rotten

[Mr. Evil]

13. I've had to do the same thing.

A friend I had since about 1979 went from voting for Obama in 2008 and 2012 to voting for TSF in 2016 and 2020. Don't know about 2024 because we don't communicate anymore.

He listens to the AM radio gasbags every morning and Focksnooze (Fox News) every night having his politics of who to hate, who to blame, who to be afraid of and who to point the finger at, spoon fed to him. How does this happen to people? How can millions of people that have access to truthful information literally at their fingertips suddenly reduce themselves to a quivering mass of hysteria with a mind of mush? They have literally become automatons for the far right. Even if you present to them actual known facts backed by empirical evidence they'll still snort back, "that's a lie!"

One thing I recognize in these people is their unwavering need to 'belong' to something... anything to feel a sense of worth. Of superiority in some way. They do not possess critical thinking skills that would otherwise prevent them from being gullible fools. These are the very same people that will never realize it until it smacks them directly in the face like a brick.