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I must respectfully disagree if you don't mind. I wish for this to be true, easier to fix, and to at least understand — but let me try to explain why I think that's not true:
Reality trickles into any authoritarian state, be it Russia, Hungary, North Korea, and now the USA; but in order for it to take hold in a person's mind, you need to:
Tell a lie enough and it becomes true. It's the ratio of falsehoods to truth that sadly matters more for the untrained mind. Why shitty parents have such an impact on their children. The combination of authority and disproportionate hearing of bullshit for years on end relative to what else they hear of the outside world.
In this era of disinfo ops with the expressed intent to gaslight and detach people from reality, it becomes very difficult. Surkov Theatrics in a nutshell. If you especially lack time; that is, raising a family, going to school, working 3 jobs to make ends meet, then you lack the necessary time to parse through the bullshit to dial into the truth.
You must understand. You and I simply being here and discussing this put us in the top 1 percentile in terms of how informed we are on this stuff. From our perspectives, it's so abundantly obvious that it's easy to think anyone could get here.