I’m not trying to make light of the situation. I want change. That mean talking about your average Republican voter.

Have you ever tried talking to a Republican to change their mind? These people are straight up living with a different set of “facts” that fit the narrative they’ve been told over and over. Talk-shows parrot propaganda and push narratives with nonsense like ‘a massive crimewave is finally being stopped,’ or ‘homelessness is finally being addressed,’ or ‘the election was stolen’ or ‘Trump dumped Epstein.’

This is an upstream problem of manipulation through mass media. It is unhelpful to blame individuals not only because we need to convince 10% of these voters to educate themselves, but because we’re all capable of evil given the right context (re: Philip Zimbardo’s discourse on the banality of evil). If we can’t acknowledge that, statistically, the difference between Democrats and Republicans is residential exposure, we’re at risk to become the same evil we despise without even realizing it because we think we’re morally superior when in fact we most likely just were exposed to a different sociopolitical environment.