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In reply to the discussion: She used to be my best friend....and then she drank the Kool Aid. [View all]pat_k
(14,714 posts)...some sort of national "recovery program."
Something like Exit Deutschland on a big scale.
Showcase recovering MAGA folk.
More attention on the heartbreak of losing loved ones to the brainwashing.
We need to move from the current us vs. them-ism where we write "them" off as evil people that deserve nothing but our condemnation, to a serious examination of the snowballing social problems the multibillion dollar far right noise machine kicked off, which is being accelerated at an unbelievable pace by social media algorithms fomenting anger and hatred that are sending an unbelievable number of Americans into rabbit holes that just keep getting more and more and more bizarre.
We need to take on Christianism Nationalism, while being very, very, clear that we are not condemning Christian faith.
We need more documentaries like the 2015 Brainwashing of My Dad
We need more people from progressive faith communities speaking out on the cancer that is Christian Nationalism, as James Talarico did (and is now doing on a national stage). If you haven't seen the sermon he gave in October 2023, it is a MUST watch.