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Jane in NC's avatar

Ignorance also has a willful component. People will believe things they know or suspect are wrong if they support what those people really want to believe. We can't underestimate MAGA cruelty and desire to cause pain to people outside their bubble. A LOT of MAGAs are only now waking up because mass deportations are affecting THEIR families, not just the libs'. Trump's economic illiteracy is affecting THEIR budgets, not the just the libs'.

I've said for a long time that pain is often the best teacher; sometimes the only one that can get through to people. MAGA world is starting to feel the pain of what they voted for, thinking that pain would only land on other people. If they want back in to normal, civil society, they have to prove this isn't just a 'because it affected me, too' conversion.

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Todd's avatar

So true. People typically do not understand the things they themselves don’t endure.

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Jane in NC's avatar

That's the history of the modern Republican Party. EG: How many of them were against LGBT rights until one of their children or close family members came out as queer?

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michael cannon's avatar

Ikr. Spare the rod, spoil the child. Elaboration needed???

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Jane in NC's avatar

Not exactly, in this case. More like suffering themselves the consequences they were fine with as long it happened to others.

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