Those in power want to maintain power which is much easier if the people are divided, particularly on subjects not involving the people in power.

They didn't become billionaires by not being ass holes

Have you ever seen the movie Se7en with Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman? I don't know a single person who wouldn't do what Brad Pitt did at the end of that movie. Not a single person. And I wouldn't blame them either.

Just the other day someone posted on here that their uncle died from covid after getting sucked into the alt-right pseudo-medicine rabbit hole. And the comments were all just vile shit like "I'm glad your dumbass uncle died" and "1 down only like 20 million to go", "good riddance he deserved it" etc. And when I point out shit talking this guy for losing someone he loved is fucked up I get downvoted lol. We can't even come together online, let alone in person.

Whoever is running things know that we simply cannot get along, we cannot forgive each other, we cannot unite. It's their greatest tool honestly. Could you forgive maga?

It's just generally beneficial to be aware. Besides that, if you are interacting with someone who is bigoted in some way it's useful to determine which type they are. If they are just sold to the narrative then it's easier to open up their mind. If they are aware it's bullshit that just benefits them then it's pretty difficult.

One Sunday morning I walked out into my ex's open garage and sitting in there was a stray dog. Her neck fur had a mark as though someone recently pulled off her collar and dumped her on the back road. I calmly approached the dog and turns out she was the sweetest doggo and instantly got along with my ex's other 2 dogs. She rarely barked and would always just walk up to some, sit and wait to get petted. Even the ex's dad who doesn't like dogs eventually warmed up to her because of how sweet she was.

Weeks later we took her to an event downtown on an unseasonably hot fall afternoon beer fest. That dog wanted nothing more than to just get pet by as many people as possible. Sitting outside a brewery was a worker sitting in a chair almost drenched in sweat looking like he hated life. She walked up to him, sat down and looked at him, and he instantly smiled.

Working one of the beer tents was an interim director of HR who was one of the most miserable shit-birds I ever had the displeasure to work with. Did nothing but complain about everything and everyone, blindly blamed everyone for things she simply didn't understand, I even nearly got written up because this lady didn't take the time to read my explanation about an error report when new employees are loaded into a benefits system. Even the dog wanted nothing to do with that miserable fuck.

I'll trust the dogs to be a better judge of character than half the mouthbreathers who vote at the polls.

Ya do realize I have more reason to hate Utah Mormons than just they're different right? I specifically focus on the Utahn culture and religious practices of Mormons because I see them as an active threat to basically every western state. If I could get away with just purging BYU, LDS HQ, and the Utahn government I'd be more than happy to settle for that, I just severely doubt that would end my complaints.

If it makes it any more understandable I am far less forgiving towards Evangelical mega churches, which all I can think is that there are only viable targets for such groups.

I kinda feel it does make sense, though perhaps not so strongly as the parent indicated. Young brains are more malleable - that's pretty much a known thing - and learning at a young age sets in high knowledge and patterns of learning that follow us through adulthood.

If one learns a certain thing from a young age and it's pretty much been driven in multiple ways - indoctrination whether intentional or otherwise - that's a lot of stuff that's been set pretty hard. Even it somebody is actively aware it's bad it can be hard to adjust one's inclination towards a certain way of thinking.

I'm not trying to make excuses for racism - because frankly a lot of those people don't even try to adjust their thinking - but breaking free from one's upbringing is not a small hurdle and I'd put it in similar terms to breaking a bad addiction.

I don't think LSD has the capacity to change someone that doesn't already want to change.