It's mostly daunting to me; I feel fatigued when facing the reality that people are so easy to manipulate. It makes me feel hopeless when I see someone so willing to speak with full confidence on something they have done no research into for themselves - when the source of their confidence is just a bunch of headlines they skimmed over on Reddit's front page over the course of several years and some heckin' hilarious Stephen Colbert quips.

It's so easy to just accept the reality that everyone else around you is accepting, because everyone within that environment is being constantly blasted with the same ideas, while dissent is actively suppressed - even more so when you can play the trick of lumping communists in with ridiculous reactionary fanatics.

Meanwhile, opening the eyes of someone who's accepted capitalist propaganda usually requires a personal touch. You have to get to know them, have a conversation with them, and methodically peel back the layers of misconception they've been covered in their whole lives over a broad period. And a lot of the time, you'll never convince people otherwise, no matter how you try. It's exhausting.