Good people project their goodness, and only existential hazard will shock them hard enough to dispel their ignorance.
Do you not think we have had plenty of this already? Perhaps only a few of us, so far, have shed our illusions, and it will have to get much worse for others to follow.
That's exactly what I think. It will take life or death exigency for many. Realizing everything they ever believed in was a lie will deeply distress them that survive being betrayed by institutions and people they believed in all their lives. There will be a lot of shock and grief - and a lot of rage. There will also be a lot of people that just can't believe it, that refuse to believe it, until it's too late. Too many.
Too many who are important to me, I'm afraid. And I know they will blame me, not any agency or entity of their government.
All we can do is our best to speak the truth and to help others to thrive to the best of their abilities. If people can't prosper or accept their personal responsibility, there's not much we can do to change that. It is so sad that people we care about need to fix blame on the blameless. They must be incapable of independent thought to do that, I think.
they do not think independent thought is valuable, or valid. Straight party line thinkers. The left seems far worse than the right for this. They all think nearly exactly alike about all things. All things. It's bizarre. The right accepts a range of thinking as valid.