Wow, "If it wasn't for Gen-Z, there would have been a red wave."

[Farmer-Rick]

24. Perhaps, but what I saw

Was that a large percentage of the people I knew were very liberal and still are. But some became conservative through the years, as they got more comfortable and prosperous.

Yes, there were a lot of squares. We saw them but they hid their antisemitism, racism and misogyny.

What I saw with people who were on the fence, mostly liberal because they hated the war and the draft, but not committed to equality and liberal values. They were the ones who became crazy conservatives, GOP voters.

As they got luckier and richer, they got more conservative. When you're lucky and stumble onto a wealth you never expected, you think this happens to everyone. You start losing your compassion for those less lucky then you. In 2008, they lost a lot of their prosperity. But by then, hate radio had been around for awhile.

When the internet, Fox, Limpballs and hate radio came, they turned those squares and people on the fence. That hate became addictive and freeing. They could express their worse inner hatred and dump it on people different from them. They could blame others for their insecurities and loss of wealth.

I got caught up in that hate radio crap. I watched Fox when it first came out. It was fun to watch and elicited a hatred that pushed away all your worries. It was like I was being hypnotized. But I caught myself. I realized the hate didn't end after the program. It colored my day and my behavior. So, I just stopped listening to it and stopped watching Fox.

I found DU, liberal radio, Richard Wolff and Thom Hartmann. I was able to reevaluate the propaganda fed to me by corporate media everywhere I turned.

The GOPers are still caught up in that hatred and it's consuming their lives. But they can't see it.

What mildly surprises me is that they haven't stopped feeding their hate.