CNN partnered with psychologist Ashley Landrum to study how kids see politics, and some of the results were easy to predict and others were pretty disturbing. 

But the thing that stood out to me was that kids who grew up in Blue areas with Democrat parents were clearly brainwashed to hate Republicans. 

While Republican-leaning kids (10-11 year-olds) expressed that the political views of another kid didn't matter that much to them, the opposite was true for kids who have grown up in a left-leaning environment. 

"He's like Hitler."

A CNN study of 10 and 11 year-olds found that blue state kids held more polarized and extreme views than red state kids.

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It's not even close and is a great indicator of how well the brainwashing works. And that is clearly what it is if you think about it. Kids who grow up around Republicans are pretty laissez-faire about others' political attitudes, while kids exposed mainly to Democrats see the people who think differently from themselves as evil. 

Pure evil, as one kid put it. 

This probably is in line with your experiences, as they are with mine. I think most Democrats are emotive and respond to what they perceive to be "good intentions," while my experience with Democrats is that they think of Republicans as evil. When people disagree with strong liberals, they perceive it as a challenge to their identity. 

Democrats constantly signal their virtue, while Republicans usually want to be left alone. We don't demand people know our pronouns.

The personal is the political is a slogan I encountered all the time when I hung around leftists. This is why there is so much rage directed against Donald Trump and the MAGA movement and also why even Mitt Romney was the subject of so much rage when he was running for president. 

Mitt Romney. So don't tell me that this is special to Trump. All Republicans are portrayed as evil because it is necessary to maintain this fiction in order to forward the brainwashing. Any nuance is antithetical to the need to make people--especially young people--repeat things robotically. 

The fact that Democrat-leaning kids are unapologetic about not wanting to be friends with Republicans tells you a lot, and not about the kids. It's not like they came up with these ideas independently. They are reflecting what is around them, and what they are reflecting is raw, unreasoning hate. 

Kids who grow up in Republican areas don't hate Kamala Harris, even if they don't like her. The opposite is not the case with Democrat-leaning kids. They HATE Trump and his supporters. 

This is sad, and most of all, I blame the brainwashers and not the kids. The kids have grown up in a North Korea-like environment where ideas are pounded into them. Their parents watch MSNBC and CNN, and they hear this all day, every day. 

It's saddening and maddening. Sowing this division makes it harder to see how America can come together, at least outside of a massive threat that temporarily unites us. 

It shouldn't take something like that to get people to sit down and talk, even if we disagree. 

But if the Democrats get their way, we won't even be able to try, because their goal is to censor all but the people who mindlessly mouth the "right" words. 

Oh JOY!