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Isn't that par for the course for right wing folk? It also means that they can be treated, recover, and learn from their wrongdoings.
I would note that Fetterman gets brain damaged, and seemingly turned hard right. I wish we did have a treatment for the mental condition that leads to conservatism.
We do have treatment though, that's education, strong communities, and access to healthcare.
Even under the best of conditions, people can live under that kind of system and still turn out like Stephen Miller, etc.
I think under those conditions it would be incredibly rare for someone like that to keep such ways of thinking to adulthood, and it's another opportunity to learn how to help.
I don't agree with that last part. I believe their mental instability and cognative disfunction can hinder their impulse control, but I wouldn't argue its what makes them the goose stepping Nazi pieces of shit that they are. That's malice, not ignorance or mental illness.
As we are both talking in general, I think malice can be mended, but of course it really depends on what specifically.
I know very well that there are people who want death to those who don't deserve it. I was so upset when I was having a conversersation with one such person, but I understand that they don't know any better. Said person only watches Fox "news" and is so entrenched in that propaganda, that manufactured hatred, it may be easy to forget that these people are also being taken advantage of.
Do you see what I mean? Their ignorance allows malice to manifest.