Agreed. I do think we’re letting these folks off “easy” by just taking care of the Democrats. We also need to completely discredit the Democrats ideology and infrastructure as well - which is going to be even harder given how overwhelming their influence on younger generations have become at this point, and that they have had decades to influence them.
I believe people in my generation (the “Reagan Generation” - born in the early 70s to older parents) had enough exposure to our aunts, uncles, and immediate family members who served in WWII and understand the principles we were fighting for to see through half of the propaganda that some of my peers with later generation parents certainly were NOT taught.
What frightens me is the probability of me being on the “other side” of all of this had I not gotten pregnant and dropped out of college because I was on the SAME EXACT path (in one case the same school and major after my first two years at a Community College) as those friends of mine who are so awesomely intelligent, yet so incredibly blind.
A friend of mine who I greatly respected (and still have respect as a person and friend for) was even one of Obama’s STUDENTS at UofC Law School, and now understanding exactly what Obama was teaching makes me understand her even more and makes me understand even more how incredibly hard it would/will be to EVER reach her with the truth. Another friend of mine is PART of the media establishment so reaching him with the truth is perhaps even harder - and these are the REALLY intelligent people who’ve fallen for this. If we can’t reach them, what can we do about those without the capacity to understand how complex these issues are? Ugh... sometimes I wish I was a truly ignorant person as my life would be so much happier. Apparently, I took the “red pill” without knowing there was ever a choice! LOL
I think the adage of “none so blind as he who does not wish to see” applies. Look at David Horowitz - a red diaper doper baby, used to be the editor of “Ramparts” (which I read as a leftist raised teenager) and now is pretty much conservative. Change can happen, whether bright, a genius, or average. The person just has to WANT to know the truth, and be willing to give up fondly held belief.
That’s the hard part. It’s not intellect or lack thereof, it’s sincerity to know the truth.