Bluesky

Denazification is the process which comes to mind as the closest analog. That process took years, and arguably was not necessarily effective.

But the name of the game is deradicalization. It isn't enough to try and teach these people e.g. critical thinking skills -- they have been radicalized by years of propaganda exposure. Many of them no longer understand the difference between facts and opinions -- there is no basis for instruction.

I live in Missouri. These people consistently vote on ballots measures that help them, then vote in people who will overturn the ballot measures "Because people didn't know what they were voting for."

What pattern does the people getting voted in have? The (R) next to their name.

Seen it in the past decade I've lived here. People won't learn.

Just a quick FYI, you know nit-picking a small grammar error in the title, hardly noticable.

The "Re-" prefix generally implies that the thing had previously existed.

Meh. We didn't eliminate the Nazis the first time via education; we beat them at their own game of bombs and bullets.

Why would the neonazis be any different?

Re-education implies there was education in the first place. I'm not so sure about that.

It's not because they're pro-Republican, the media has made them anti-Democrat

I mean I think calling it reeducation is just a way meant to make it sound scary. What it really needs to be branded as is educating people who didn't receive a proper education growing up as their school wasn't funded well enough or they lived in a red state where funding was a problem on top of bad curriculums. I think that issue is primarily what's led to our current state of affairs, underfunding of education and the limiting of higher education behind paying for college have led to a less educated America that falls for people like Trump.

the problem with re-education, is that they literally want it, because then they have an ACTUAL excuse to start doing insane shit.

Can’t fix stupid.

After identifying as Rs since they were born, they will never not vote R. The platform doesn’t matter, they will parrot off any fake Fox Newz talking points without caring or understanding what they mean. Without hesitation they’ll vote a goat over Trump if the goat has the R next to its name.

It's culture. Quit being obtuse. It has nothing to do with education or intelligence. It is all culture. Its why they want trucks and attack trans and other LGQTB. They have an extremely rigid world view. They use their power and influence to maintain status quo.

If you want to change them you need the numbers to affect the culture to usurp it from them. You don't need to reeducate them. I almost believe they are more intelligent than many on the left. Their education is fine. You need to sweep the culture beliefs and ideology from them because that is what they can't stop. That is what they hold on to the most.

They win because they're not out to educate you on the left. They affect culture. They impact the status quo. They boost that tiktok account and others to share signals that affect culture, not education. No one cares if you can point to a line in a book and say well akwasually this is why what you're doing is wrong you fascist. Also if anyone hasn't noticed. Pretty quiet on a lot of spaces isn't it? There's breathing room. But when midterms come up, they're coming. You ready or just waiting to react? Cause right now the have a room filled with Phd marketing teams planning where to apply pressure and what content to create.

If you want to win, culture jam the fuck out of their way of life. Make Trucks a status symbol of the LGQTB. Make gun ownership a liberal thing and then bring about laws from within. Don't just call them fascists and log off. Make a decent effort to generate content that can be shared to my grandmother that points out why they're fascists. Also what fascists is and why anyone should care.

There's so many ways to win. The left just isn't doing any of it.

No we need to end bloodlines, abandon red districts completely

I still think the problem is a lot of people value in-group membership too much. Like, we all want to fit in with our friends and loved ones. But some people really will jump off a bridge and die because their friends are doing. It's like, I don't know, a hit of cocaine every time they do their in-group rituals or go to a rally or whatever. I don't know how to fix that. It seems like it might be deeply baked into human brains.

But if we even wanted to start, we'd have to give these maga-hats a better group to belong to. If these people channeled their weird in-group masturbation energy into, like, cleaning up litter or knitting or whatever, we'd all be so much better off.

We probably need to get rid of a bunch of billionaires who are pumping out horrible content 24/7, too.

If we don't embrace our fools, we'll be doomed to suffer them.

Re-education suggests that these people were educated to begin with.

I never understood leftist countries' apparent obsession with re-education camps... Until ~2016 or so.

You cant re-educate Nazis. You can only compost them for fertilizer

Only if the re-education involves throwing them into a volcano.