I am sad for people who are genuinely afraid when they don’t have to be. There is genuine confusion in this country about what is real and what is not. Not everyone manipulated by fear is necessarily a bad person. But this is causing danger for all of us. So we simply have to say the truth.
It's gotten easier in recent years because a lot of the bullshit propaganda that was weaponized for decades has lost it's bluntness and impact now. And it's generational too, because folks even younger than me don't buy it. Some of us were able to break out of it. As we can see others haven't.