I am not talking about welcoming everyone back or just forgiving and forgetting. I am talking about helping people who have become victims.

There is one thing we don't talk about often enough. A lot of Trump supporters and people in DC this week have been victims of a propaganda campaign.

I know that there were extremists in DC. They have had the views they do well before Trump. I'm not talking about them. I'm talking about a lot of the Q crowd. The everyday people who work all the time and only get news from their friends on Facebook. Your Father or Brother.

A lot of those people in DC truly believe that the election has been stolen. It does not make sense to us but it doesn't have to. We're not the one's being targeted. However, if I truly believed that the election was stolen I would expect all of us to be in the streets. Wouldn't you? How would you feel if your fellow neighbors just sat back and let it happen? If they blamed you instead of thanking you for trying to save our Democracy? You would be even more terrified and angry.

We have to help some of these people now or our country is doomed.

There is an excellent post in r/ParlerWatch that pleads for members of the sub to be careful because they are viewing propaganda when they see screenshots and other shared things from Parler. It explains what propaganda's intent is and how easy it is to fall for it. Here is another great post that is written by a German immigrant to the US explaining what is going on with Trump supporters.

It has been proven that certain personality types are more easily affected by Propaganda and that some personality types are more likely to believe in conspiracy theories. There are a lot of Trump supporters who are intelligent. They are not all hardcore "rednecks" . These people have been seeing propaganda since 2015.

Also remember that when Trump ran in 2015 he seemed pretty liberal in some areas. He said he didn't care who used what bathroom and seemed to stand on the side of Trans people choosing whatever bathroom they want. (Big topic back then) After he was elected- he banned them from the military. When he first started running said he doesn't support abortion but he is a New Yorker and has been raised to believe that it is not his place to decide that for a woman. Eventually this changed to "prosecute the women" and then "no-just the doctors."

We are all living in our own information worlds. Google shows you what it thinks you want to see. Facebook lets people target you and comes up with algorithms specifically for you. Etc. You and I could look up the exact same thing at the same time in the same room and still see different results. Even if we have the same general interests and ideals. So if you search for something you heard at work- Google is going to show you results that may reinforce what you heard instead of the truth. If you go on FB and your old trusted friend is swearing that they have proof of something - you're probably going to believe them. And on and on.

So former Indiana Trump supporters or those close to someone who was- what was it that made you decide to leave? What advice do you have for others who want to help someone they know?