Great point! The way the Left treats conservative blacks is way beyond racist. It’s just unhinged, full-throttled hatred. You’re also right, that such out-of-control racial animus would probably have pushed me out of the liberal camp, if the noxious lies the Boston Globe churned out daily re: Bush the Elder hadn’t gotten to me first.
Still, it’s hard to make a convert. When you are a liberal, that is an intrinsic part of your identity. You see it as a very good, positive association. It is a huge step to go from there to what you’ve been conditioned to think of as knuckle-dragging hickdom. A lot of people just can’t make the shift.
[& no, of course conservatism is not Neanderthal or any other pejorative. I’m just mentioning how a liberal is taught/inculcated to think of conservatives. The brainwashing can be very intense.]
It is probably not unlike a cult. I use “cult” as an objective term.
And like a cult, the person has to realize that it is bad.
I believe that the problem is that an indoctrinated Liberal doesn’t look beyond the surface and the false promises.
They are “brainwashed.”