General Discussion

I watched my relatives and some friends succumb to brainwashing. The poison came in different forms - my dad and uncle started listening to hate radio in the 80s and their personalities changed completely. My in-laws have Fox News on all day and are filled with anger and false ideas about what is happening in the world. My efforts to reality-check their ravings are met with momentary polite disbelief. Then they go right back into paranoia land.

I've lost some good friends who've gone down the rabbit hole of bizarre internet conspiracy theories.

I think it's easier to brainwash people who live in sparsely populated areas because of group think and social pressures. That's why the targeting began there.