I hate right wing propaganda and Pauline religion.
I live in a deep red state and I see so many people with so much potential to be good to others and to the world. But they are led to anger snd hatred towards whomever their church or Fox targets. In their private lives, they would not associate with terrible people like T***p or anyone like that. They are unfailingly kind and generous to people they know, and you all know about things like this: once they get to know someone from a group they are supposed to hate, they carve out an exception as "different." But it's like a switch flips when Fox or their church tells them who to hate or be angry with. I can talk to them and get them to agree that their prejudices are wrong in principle and think that I've made progress with them and then the next time they go to church or watch Fox, they revert. I am so tired of being angry with them and it exhausts me and makes me sad.
Of course there are hopelessly lost assholes who are eager to hate and would find someone to hate no matter what. But I've also seen people who I loved in college, who were wonderful and kind people, change over the last 30 years to mean, judgemental, narrow-minded assholes. And it's been fundamentalist churches and right-wing media that have done it. They poison people down to their bones and make them toxic.
I wish that there was some way of mass deprogramming. There are some people I have cut out of my life, and there are some I simply can't bear to. I don't think I'll ever have anything but hate for Fox and fundamentalism. They have, for profit and power, perverted people in my life and all over the nation until it's turned into something unrecognizable. Sorry that I rambled on so long.
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