this is one of the challenges with cult deprogramming and also why countering disinfo with fact checking rarely helps cure anyone’s brain worms what they need is an emotional hook into the accurate facts that’s stronger than the one they’re feeling currently into the lies, and that is SO. HARD

I recently had the completely necessary but shitty political discussion with my parents to determine if they were voting for Trump because he’s a Rep or if they actually bought into the cult and unfortunately it’s the cult one and now I don’t know how to move forward

"Just because you are gullible enough to believe that doesn't mean I am. Someone lied to you and you are mindlessly repeating it" ended that crap from my dad.