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Don't hate them for it, because they never made a conscious decision to do it. It may be incredibly frustrating that some people are sabotaging everyone else like this, but it's not really their fault. They've simply been raised in a rotten society and brainwashed so hard their brains are literally fried.
Those of us who happened to avoid a similar fate are not necessarily better. Probably just lucky.
Also, you did not avoid a similar fate. The way in which you are a bootlicker is probably invisible to you, and it shows itself during different contexts. There is no way in Hell everyone in your environment was touched by this but you and you alone came away unscathed. Hubris.