A couple people have. But they're very rare. But they do exist.
But I'm going to share a secret with you. A secret that everyone on the Left knows, but no one on the Right cares about:
"Deprogramming" is a myth. Doesn't exist. Doesn't happen. There is no "de-". People are either programmed from infancy and schooling, or they're RE-programmed. People don't just "lose" programming. It is a psychological ritual scarring, forever onto their minds. The USSR gulags were full of True Believers, check any history book on the subject, full of people who thought that the USSR was perfect and the greatest nation on Earth, they were just maybe perhaps wrong a singular time as it concerned themselves. And also those who thought that they themselves MUST have been evil, because the USSR could be nothing but Good, so if it were executing them, it must be for good reason. Sustained starvation and torture could not "deprogram" people. Because it doesn't exist as a concept.
You either teach them while they're young, as the Left found out half a century ago and flooded the schools with their ideologies, or you re-teach them, but re-teaching is harder, and a lengthly process. Because otherwise, people will view all bad things through the lenses they've already learned. Raped by migrants? Patriarchy is to blame, not the government that let them in. Starving on the streets due to lockdowns? It's those darn anti-maskers who made me go out of business, not the government that shut me down! Cancer due to government-endorsed and enforced codes? Obviously the issue lies with how private industry is under-regulated, not the enforced use of the product by the government, for it can do no wrong, it needs MORE power to endorse and enforce.
The rose-colored glasses do not come off no matter how strong a slap to the face anyone gets. People need to learn to remove those glasses, and see the world with fewer lenses. But that can't be done without teaching them how.
A couple people have. But they're very rare. But they do exist.
But I'm going to share a secret with you. A secret that everyone on the Left knows, but no one on the Right cares about:
"Deprogramming" is a myth. Doesn't exist. Doesn't happen. There is no "de-". People are either programmed from infancy and schooling, or they're RE-programmed. People don't just "lose" programming. It is a psychological ritual scarring, forever onto their minds. The USSR gulags were full of True Believers, check any history book on the subject, full of people who thought that the USSR was perfect and the greatest nation on Earth, they were just maybe perhaps wrong a singular time as it concerned themselves. And also those who thought that they themselves MUST have been evil, because the USSR could be nothing but Good, so if it were executing them, it must be for good reason. Sustained starvation and torture could not "deprogram" people. Because it doesn't exist as a concept.
You either teach them while they're young, as the Left found out half a century ago and flooded the schools with their ideologies, or you re-teach them, but re-teaching is harder, and a lengthly process. Because otherwise, people will view all bad things through the lenses they've already learned. Raped by migrants? Patriarchy is to blame, not the government that let them in. Starving on the streets due to lockdowns? It's those darn anti-maskers who made me go out of business, not the government that shut me down! Cancer due to government-endorsed and enforced codes? Obviously the issue lies with how private industry is under-regulated, not the enforced use of the product by the government, for it can do no wrong, it needs MORE power to endorse and enforce.
The rose-colored glasses do not come off no matter how strong a slap to the face anyone gets. People need to learn to remove those glasses, and see the world with fewer lenses. But that can't be done without teaching them how.