Republican lurkers---I admit it: I have seriously misjudged your party.

[Genki Hikari]

55. We have a vast populace

Who have been groomed since birth to value delusion over reality, and not to listen to actual experts, but only to the people who think the same way they do.

They are further groomed to believe that they are never wrong, so if anyone disagrees with them or challenges their stupidity, they are never to back down. No, their groomers tell them, don't back down--you must cling ever more fiercely to your stupidity.

They are also groomed to see those disagreements and challenges not as people having different viewpoints, but as persecution of themselves. They wallow in their persecution complexes and eventually get groomed into thinking that being persecuted means that it's okay to destroy their "oppressors." Everything up to and including murder and mass murder is justifiable to "protect" themselves and their delusions.

And every bit of this comes from the grooming known as religion.

This is what happens to a country that has given religion too much of a free pass for too long.