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I think so because propaganda has taken over people's minds. There's so much-mind poisoning garbage on the Internet. I was talking to a relative the other day who cursed Trump vehemently. In the same breath he said something about immigrants being a problem and some nonsense about them working at Home Depot. Mind you he is never going to be working at Home Depot.

The whole mentality of “them” taking something away from “us” is crazy it makes no sense but because of propaganda it persists. And the ones influenced by it have no ability to discern the manipulative intent of the things they listen to on social media.
There's no getting through to large swaths of people.

We're facing challenges that seem to be insurmountable to me just from my personal experience. I watched some other people recently listening to YouTube propaganda. Once again they were not able to determine that what they were listening to was fake. A large number of people do not know how to even question the sources of the information that they believe.

I talked to another friend who is as anti Trump as they come. And she was still uttering anti immigration ignorance as it relates to the need to unite because it's not just immigrants who are in danger. I've listened to and watched the misinformation of so many among my family and friends and -- most of them are Democrats but they're still misguided.

I’ve come to the dismaying conclusion that it will take the deaths of a large number of people close to them or their own deaths before the majority wake up. Because “woke” truly is dead.