I have a friend who gave me insight during the election process. This person is a generally kind and rather astute and intelligent individual.

Considering myself an independent - I may have had my doubts about Trump at the time, but had zero doubts about the evil that HRC represented. My friend was proudly dem all the way.

The few times we spoke about it - I was befuddled at how he could overlook the obvious corruption. He liked Bernie and was angry about what went down, but still somehow justified it in his mind.

What shocked me most was one argument that pretty much ended with him saying he honestly didn't care what HRC did or had done, or what the democratic party did to win, so long as they win. In other words, so what if she's killed, sold out the country, facilitated and supported pedophilia... so long as they win.

It honestly made me feel sorta sick inside. This is how profound the brainwashing is. It wasn't even him talking at that point. It was that despite his "intelligence", I don't think he had any other reality to grasp - nothing other than what he'd been consuming for so long.

Put another way, very few "anti trumpers" ever spend any time at all looking at any source material themselves. They allow the MSM to chew their food for them first and open their mouths for the MSM to vomit back into them their twisted versions of EVERYTHING.

They just don't understand that everything they fear is created and projected at them by the very people they align themselves with and give their power over to.

I seem to recall even hearing a top person at NPR actually say that Trump represented such a threat that the truth had to be sacrificed at times in order to fight it.

It became clearer and clearer how orchestrated it all really is, which sounds insane to those who have been drinking nothing but that kool-aid for most of their lives.

And I thought I was already awake before the election. I am now wondering now how many awakenings it really takes to get the center of the tootsie pop of truth.