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So are we supposed to just give up and just accept that every election is going to swing to the right now? Assuming they don't rig elections, how are we expected to get people over to the other side if we treat them like garbage even if they realized they fucked up? I don't think it's very wise in this current situation to continue to make enemies when we are all in danger. The fact that people are breaking away should be a good thing and we should encourage it instead of just calling them stupid. If one of your friends joined a cult and managed to get out, would you be pissed at your friend for falling for it or be pissed at the cult that manipulated them? In cults there are always hierarchies and the majority of MAGA are not the people we see in podcasts and on the news. Those are the people in charge and are the ones that convince people to join for their own selfish reason by being loud and portraying themselves as the victims.
Seriously, go look up videos of people that were in cults and tell me that it's their fault. There are people that would rather kill themselves than try and leave the cult because they are so scared. We only see this on a macroscopic scale while we never consider the small scale things going on all over the country. These people have literally been brainwashed and the people on the "outside" would rather call them stupid than give them a chance at fixing things. All that does is reinforce the idea that the cult is better because everyone else hates them.
Edit: I'm not saying we need to forgive them. All I'm saying is treat them like people instead of all of them being monsters.
The electorate didn't shift red. More of their unreliable voters showed up and fewer of our unreliable voters did. That's it. It's not like there was a population wide blue shift in 2020 that Trump then countered by being welcoming to Democrats.
I'm all for treating anyone with decency once they start acting like people, and not monsters. They're not going to get a welcome by clinging to their racism and conspiracies.