It's not pretty but it's also what's expectable in a political environment with a near-total absence of leftism from public discourse. Westerners in general and especially Americans have never been exposed to anything but reactionary media, reactionary textbooks, reactionary movies etc. Of course they're going to believe the US stands for freedom, that Stalin killed a hundred billion people and that limp milquetoast succdemery is the furthest left you can go without being worse than the Nazis.
One can get mad at these people, it's very easy but ultimately doing so is unproductive liberal moralising over muh personal responsibility. Instead one should think of ways to educate these people. We've probably all been in a similar place once but something made us realise how we've been lied to.
This guy works in the natsec space producing literaly propaganda for the US gov. He knows what he is doing and this isn't brainworms, it's information war and deliberately propagating incorrect shit.
It's not pretty but it's also what's expectable in a political environment with a near-total absence of leftism from public discourse. Westerners in general and especially Americans have never been exposed to anything but reactionary media, reactionary textbooks, reactionary movies etc. Of course they're going to believe the US stands for freedom, that Stalin killed a hundred billion people and that limp milquetoast succdemery is the furthest left you can go without being worse than the Nazis.
One can get mad at these people, it's very easy but ultimately doing so is unproductive liberal moralising over muh personal responsibility. Instead one should think of ways to educate these people. We've probably all been in a similar place once but something made us realise how we've been lied to.
This guy works in the natsec space producing literaly propaganda for the US gov. He knows what he is doing and this isn't brainworms, it's information war and deliberately propagating incorrect shit.
I didn't see he was a ghoul. Fuck that guy.
Other well-meaning liberals still hold similar views though because of the propaganda.