I think some of them feel a twinge of guilt, but would rather lie to themselves and gaslight you, rather than admit what they did.

When you realise you're surrounded by people who will in fact stab you in the back if the media ever ordered it you know on instinct what topics are going to cause problems if you bring them up.

Once they've been ideologically and psychologically captured, you're suddenly walking around like a Jedi with Stormtroopers, hoping Order 66 doesn't come down.

It's happened before too. The Rawandan Genocide was started by invectives from radio broadcasters: "Cut down the tall trees!" Suddenly if you weren't wearing the correct clothing, your own neighbors would chop you to bits.

They'll claim they aren't like that... but they are, and they almost don't even want to believe it.