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In reply to the discussion: I don't care that I've lost friends neighbors or family [View all]Cirsium
(1,158 posts)It doesn't matter what they supposedly believe.
Have you even tried to talk to your family members about this?
As for the hope that "they will realize it," let's look to history for some clues.
Regarding MAGA supporters ever having any regrets, read what William Shirer discovered when interviewing everyday Germans after WWII. It should be remembered that every German city lay in ruins and millions had been killed.
"There was so much that was true that did not make sense: the monumental apathy of the German people and their deep regret, not that they had started the war, but merely that they had lost it; their whining complaints at the lack of food and fuel and their total lack of sympathy or even interest in the worse plight of the occupied peoples, for which they bore so much responsibility; their boredom at the very mention of the Nuremberg trial, which they were convinced was only an Allied propaganda stunt; their striking unreadiness for, or interest in, democracy, which we, with typical Anglo-Saxon fervor and blindness, were trying to shove down their throats."
― William L. Shirer, End of a Berlin Diary
Their deep regret was not that they had started the war, not about the suffering of millions of innocent people, but merely that they had lost the war. Let that sink in.