impressionable idealistic people get easily swayed by propaganda that demonizes opponents or creates influential fear,
and mass psychosis is not limited to left leaners, there are plenty of warmongers and covid cult followers on the right as well
Both of you point out what I saw happening to my wife. Like me, she never bought into the poyzeen poke, but the mass pro-Uke stories had her on a hook. I had to get her to see some of the photoshop stuff, to look at the history of the regions that border Russia, and study up on their present ‘government’, in order for her to stabilize a bit.
She has since realized that the Uke ‘guvmint’ is really run by the globalistas, who we both despise. Ukraine has an incredibly bad ‘termite infestation’, their ‘house’ quietly and secretly invaded by some really ($$$$$) hungry ‘pests’.
Then you got the type of folks who want to provoke a war, any war, nomatter what. $$$$$$$
At this point, “right/left Democrat/Republican” mean almost nothing. What matters is “Truth vs Lies”.
People who want truth are not taken in by propaganda.