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It's fine to try to error on the side of caution. And assume that people aren't horrible human beings. Just ignorant bumpkins that could be fixed with information and education.
But when the majority of them in the face of conflicting facts and evidence reject the truth and double down on the deadly rhetoric. It's not a lack of education. They're just bad people. Looking for someone outside themselves to blame for the problems they've caused for themselves.
This is who all Republicans are. As well as a few Democrats. It hurts to acknowledge this. Because many of them are family, sometimes even parents or siblings. But that doesn't make it any less true. It just makes it harder for us to acknowledge.
I think you underestimate the power of propaganda.
Nope. Propaganda doesn't negate any of the other points. Further that propaganda is involved is all the more reason not to excuse or enable the ones using it against the few genuinely ignorant.