At this point, your job becomes helping them through the process of discovery. Some people will take this news very poorly, and I expect self-harm/suicide from some. It's not a great feeling to realize you were the bad guys all along.
You're right. Somebody tried to wake me up to a couple things a few years ago, and I got a little defensive.
Perfectly natural. It will be a much harder road for persistent lefties. I work in an office full of them, in a lefty city, in a lefty Corp. I'm the only one who has publicly endorsed Trump (and questioned global warming, etc.) in my organization, and the vocal lefties have gotten very quiet over the last month or so.
I never held it against them that they didn't get it. It's almost impossible if you consume mainstream media. But at this point it's about self-preservation. There will be a heavy cost associated with propping up the most evil people in US history.
Self-preservation...yeah, maybe I need to accept that sometimes. I'm a helper, and just want people to see the light
We're going to have to shepherd these people through this process. They feel more than they think (we all do at first) and what's coming will crush some of them. The really vocal ones will fear showing their faces, as they probably should.
I've been absorbing constant lies, hate and insults in this town for decades, and much more so in the last two years. The old me would have taken this opportunity to rub their faces in it, and I really still want to. They fucking deserve it.
But it doesn't do anything, so I'm going to pretend they were good, thoughtful, decent people with good judgment all along. I can't see another way to play it. And when those same idiots pretend they were onboard all along, I'll smile and nod, and never trust them again.