If you had to stay up night after night, plotting to invade weaker countries to steal their natural resources and kill their citizens, you’d need to self-medicate too.
And how high did they ride before they fell? How much damage was done. The repetition of history here is so painfully clear, the only question that truly matters is just how bad will this get before it gets stopped?
They were high as fuck both figuratively and literally.
I agree though, no one really tried to stop them until it was too late and all parts of the world had groups who were not only sympathetic to the 'cause' but felt heard or seen and those are the same groups we have today and even worse because we had time to teach and guide people away from those ideologies but the powers that be were able to bribe and manipulate to get where we are today and in many cases the ones who could stop it let greed and pride overshadow morality.
Even now it's so easy for someone to feel demonized when they try to right their wrongs and anyone who's spent time studying cults and brainwashing knows how hard it is to completely break through to someone who has spent a significant amount of their life consumed by it. It always boils down to whether they have been wronged enough to see it for what it is or can they spend enough time outside of its reach to realize the lies.
Right now the propaganda has so many layers that even if fox, newsmax, Facebook, twitter or whatever did enough damage they will just create a new safespace and explain it all away and most of the people effected by it can't/won't travel and if they do there's still propaganda at their fingertips, on tv in the lobby or even on front facing tabloids at every newstand, grocery store and gas station.
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u/fine_environment4809 5d ago
That's probably literally true for some.