re: A story about some lefties seeing the light

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. In ten years they will be voting conservative, and will spend the rest of their lives undoing the damage they did.

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I'm not sure I'd underestimate the lifelong cultural programming they've undergone.


Being left wing is seen as "intellectual" and trendy, and in many ways as "forward-thinking".

Traditional values, religion, families, children, etc. Are seen as values from another era, an era created by racists, bigots, etc.


This mindset is DEEPLY ingrained in young Americans. They can't even totally argue for their stances because it's all apart of the programming to keep them programmed with slogans/buzzwords. They couldn't indoctrinate them without a big performative aspect to it. It's easy to scream out slogans, post black squares to social media. There's never an attempt to reason through stances, just plug the ears and do the sloganeered trend.

Look at the "pro-choice" movement, the more you look into it you begin to see how it is simply the "anti-pro-life" movement. They've been reared to adopt everything popular culture has told them to adopt out of fear of being removed from the in-group and hate everything that threatens the in-group hegemony (celebrities, elites, etc.).