It’s an odd fact of our present era that we are literally seeing that people are willing to abandon family members rather than abandon their hatred of Donald Trump.
For his part, Trump is sometimes tacky, certainly a womanizer, but the farthest thing from the embodiment of evil that he is made out to be, somehow.
And it occurred to me this morning that in the same way physical diseases can be modified and made more virulent in the lab, so too can mental illness. It can be fostered, developed, and perfected, such that the target ONLY believes what the operator wants them to believe. That such a thing could be obtained in a free country is really a “triumph”–if we want to use this word for a fundamentally evil process–of science.
Mental illness can be induced and controlled. This is the fundamental insight of propagandists.