These people are on a completely different plane of existence. They're long gone from reality. Without some kind of dedicated deprogramming, you can't break them out of it.
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It's possible... but you need to wait for an opportunity.
You have to be someone they already like, then wait for reality to smack them hard enough to incite a moment of doubt. Be there to catch them when they're looking for answers... and let them step away from bad conclusions.
It's also impossible to scale. People spend lifetimes soaking in an endless, all-encompassing deluge of propaganda that's engineered to exploit human psychology. Even if you threw the "racism lever" at Fox in reverse, they'd just retreat to other spaces (OANN, Truth). They're entrenched.
Reality will assert itself when things go to shit thoroughly enough.
We just have to hope that there's enough America left to reconstruct... and I see a little bit of light in that tunnel. The Data Hoarders are preserving a ton of how-to guides for that.
Even after Germany was conquered by a coalition of its enemies, Nazi-flavored fascism still escaped and bred into what it is today. So no, even with NATO tanks rolling through Spokane and Branson, 1/3 of US citizenry would still find a way to blame Democrats and minorities for it.
Germany corrected itself when the environment changed. The Allies that occupied Germany didn't actually do a propaganda push to clear the air. They got distracted by the Soviet Union, and chose not to prosecute literally everyone remotely involved in war crimes.
The best analogy I can come up with is a nuclear ramjet: it irradiates everything it passes over and will fly forever until stopped. The cost of stopping it is cataclysmic, and even if you did, you can't just fly an anti-ramjet to un-irradiate the world. The apparatus that got us here can't undo it.
It's clearly not possible to eradicate fascist ideas or fascists. But they can be diminished in numbers and status until they can't interfere with the functioning of society. This happened after Oklahoma City and didn't pick up again until Obama. It is cyclical but it doesn't have to be this bad.
Generally speaking, no, it didn't. Most surveys and studies I've seen about post-war Germany suggest that most people just continued somewhat-quietly holding Nazi views and being sympathetic to the Nazis until they died.
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You have to be someone they already like, then wait for reality to smack them hard enough to incite a moment of doubt. Be there to catch them when they're looking for answers... and let them step away from bad conclusions.
It's hard work that takes a long time.
Reality will assert itself when things go to shit thoroughly enough.
We just have to hope that there's enough America left to reconstruct... and I see a little bit of light in that tunnel. The Data Hoarders are preserving a ton of how-to guides for that.
Germany corrected itself when the environment changed. The Allies that occupied Germany didn't actually do a propaganda push to clear the air. They got distracted by the Soviet Union, and chose not to prosecute literally everyone remotely involved in war crimes.