Once upon a time, I fell for all of the fear-mongering about a Reagan presidency. Reagan was a war-monger, he was going to start WW III, he would eliminate all rights for women, etc. The litany actually has not changed much in the years since Reagan, and is pretty reliably trotted out for every Republican candidate.
But that fear-mongering is limited in its effectiveness. People are taught to overcome phobias through exposing them to the object of their fear. Eventually, they realize that the horrible things that they imagined the object of their fear would cause do not happen. Eventually, they lose their fear.
When all of the horrible things that they imagine Trump will cause do not happen, some of them, at least, will realize that there was nothing to fear all along, and become resistant to the fear-mongering tactics.
exDM - thank you, I couldn’t have said it better!
It’s partly what pushed me from being leftist way back. Was realizing that the fear mongering was BS. The realization I had been deceived.
See my post at #35, especially the last three paragraphs. You are living proof of the validity of that viewpoint.
The truth is, at those young ages, even with good direction from your upbringing, young people ARE susceptible.
Heck, I had the advantage of having spent four years in the Navy before I went to college, and I found myself completely enamored of Sociology. Now (embarrassingly) when I look at Sociology, I see it for the leftist, statist claptrap it is and wonder how I could have ever seen it any other way.