Just venting here to people who might understand... My friends and much of my family are so lost to the manipulation and brain washing. They are such good hearted people and that’s why they cling to the BLM narrative and support leftist policies, they believe that is how to best help others. I’m trying to help them see what’s going on but they are living in a completely different reality.
I feel so helpless watching them live in fear and stress and constant outrage over lies and misdirection.
These are people I love who have helped me through the worst days of my life.
When I try to show them the facts, they don’t want to see. I think it’s too terrifying to realize that maybe everything they believe is a lie.
I can’t tell them how I truly feel because I don’t want to lose them. I know some will say that makes them not worth it, but these are people I can’t give up on. I owe it to them to try to make them see before outing myself as one of the “bad guys” in their world.
I feel so angry at the media and everyone contributing to the false narratives. Anywhere providing actual facts is labeled “alt-right” and instantly discredited.
I have a lot of work to do to undo the insanity. I guess I can’t expect a lifetime of brainwashing to be undone overnight. It took me about a year to unbrainwash myself and it was hard.
Anybody got any success stories of saving friends or family?
What you are doing is creating "cognitive dissonance." This almost always results in an emotional rejection of the idea with no base in logic. Anyone willing to entertain truth (and not everyone is) will eventually crack when it gets loud enough and consider changing their view.
Dig deeper for sources. When an article mentions a study, find the actual study instead of the report which will always be deemed right leaning. In some (very few cases), search for the same information from a left leaning source. Sometimes you'll find it, even if it is reframed in a biased light or has other garbage in it.
On the religious side, if you see this as a legitimate battle of good verses evil, rejection of truth is rejection of God, and only God can change hearts. If the heart is unwilling, the mind will never be changed.
Great advice, thank you! I do see it as a battle of good vs evil. That’s why I feel so strongly that I can’t abandon these loved ones. They are good people who want to do good in the world, they’ve been mislead.