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Dramatic_Hammer
On a slight tangent, you might have noticed how distantly I described my "relatives" in the anecdote I just told.
Ten years ago, they were super nice people. 1st generation immigrants to the UK. Living a comfortable retirement. One used to be an optician, the other was a theoretical physicist who spent most of his career doing stop secret stuff for the American military. Super switched on, intelligent and kind people when I first met them.
Bit by bit since they fully retired they have just slid down this rabbithole of right wing stupidity. Now we're at the point that they were the "right kind of immigrants who came here and worked hard for what they have" unlike the "freeloaders coming here for benefits".
Now they live in Bexhill and read the Daily Express. Its fucking miserable to watch, almost in real time, as two previously pretty sorted people have gradually become radicalised.
Imagine switching from well travelled left leaning immigrant scientist to George Soros is replacing all the white people lunacy in only a few years. Switching from somebody who used to work in academic research to somebody who will happily submit a Daily Express article as irrefutable proof of something.