They have been programmed. It will take rigorous one-one to deprogram. Some never will, as you observed with sadness. Facts do not matter when your emotions cloud judgement.
This initiative to pull the rug from the blue states crime syndicate, started with the tax reform bill. Once upon a time in NY, the lottery proceeds were touted as a supplement to the school $$. Fast forward 40 years and they are now the primary source. The political class funneled the general budget line items away. Where did the money go? Certainly not to infrastructure, nor health and hospitals, not homeless mitigation, so who got and who gets the cash?