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  Good point!
context: How do you live that long and one day decide to start stabbing? >
  
  Escalation and radicalization from Fox News, NewsMax, Twitter, Truth Social, Facebook, Maga Rallies, Q Anon, Rush Limbaugh, PragerU, Joe Rogan, OAN, a whole cesspool of awful podcasts, every republican press release, etc.  
  For years and years now, people have been told (by sources THEY trust) that 
  - Democrats are murdering babies (sometimes MILLIONS per week... and sometimes they eat them!)
  
  
  that millions of Mexicans are coming across the border with drugs and guns to rape women and steal your job, 
  
  
  that Jews secretly control the money and the media, 
  
  
  that all Muslims are radical terrorists who are just one plane ticket away from another 9/11, 
  
  
  that LGBTQ people are actually perverted pedophiles who are "grooming" your kids, 
  
  
  that China invented a bio-weapon in covid and every Asian/Asian-American person you see is a secret double agent who is in on it and could infect you right now (but it's also a hoax by Dr Fauci to sell... something?)
  
  
  and the liberal elite want to take away your freedom to turn the USA into a communist gulag. 
  
  
  It's been a non-stop barrage of this bullshit for a long long time.  Nevermind that there's no sources or even logic to back any of it up; it's fear-mongering.   They tell the same lies every day and each con artist backs each other up to make it seem like it's coming from multiple sources. Every day, the same lies, the same twisted stories or straight up fake ones.  So, it slowly radicalizes mostly regular folks (usually uneducated poor white people) into believing they are under attack and that violence is the only way to defend themselves and their country.  They hear about being under attack and that our country is being destroyed and that our freedom is at risk and over and over and over and over from different angles multiple times a day until it feels like it's inescapable. 
  It'd be impressive if it wasn't so vile and destructive. >
  
  
  Escalation and radicalization from Fox News, NewsMax, Twitter, Truth Social, Facebook, Maga Rallies, Q Anon, Rush Limbaugh, PragerU, Joe Rogan, OAN, a whole cesspool of awful podcasts, every republican press release, etc. 
  
  Please don't leave out the Blue Lives Matter bullshit. One of worst groups ever that we forced to live upon and nothing is done about it