Yes especially for the young and I actually remember being under their “spell”. I remember over hearing a couple older gentlemen talking about how they “missed when Reagan was in charge” this was around 1990. I remember laughing and thinking how that was ridiculous. I wasn’t really political and didn’t know much about Reagan beyond remembering when he was shot and remembering him speaking after the shuttle disaster but of course it wasn’t as much what I remembered but the overall media ridicule of Reagan which had sunk in. I didn’t change my mind because of talk Radio which was in its infancy then. I actually changed my mind when I started researching and studying and questioning why I thought certain things.
Some of the young people are like that but the ones in the heart of darkness have no incentive to change their minds. They are smart enough to know many of the beliefs they profess are foolish but long after they realize this they lve and work in worlds where continuing to profess thoses beliefs makes financial and career sense. Thankful much of the nutty leftist ideas get worked out of people’s system as they progress to adulthood and have to work, pay taxes, take care of children etc which is one of the reasons the left have so targetted making it easier for young adults to remain dependent on their parents which helps suspend their natural mental development and maturation.
We are at a cross roads if we dont halt the culteral slide the fiscal slide will exacerbate and the America we love will be gone forever.
Yes, you’ve said it all.
And you are one who sees keenly the subtle but persistant expediency which motivates and propels the left, and serves its interests and agenda.
Some see the consequences at this point, but very few see the roots and motives.