rightwinger
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The word "brainwashing" originated during the Korean War because the Communists tried to persuade American and South Koreans of the advantages of Communism.
Brain washing did not exist then. At the end of the Korean War the vast majority of the American and South Korean troops chose to return to the United States and South Korea. A sizable percentage of Communist Chinese prisoners of war chose to move to Formosa (which is now called Taiwan). A sizable percentage of North Korean soldiers choose to stay in South Korea.
Brainwashing does not exist now. People adopt political positions that correspond to what they see in their lives.
Liberal young people know that while the rich are getting richer, incomes for most Americans are stagnating or declining. Many have gone to college and have nothing to show for it but college debts. Many have seen their parents lose middle class jobs and be forced to take low wage jobs.
It is not Brainwashing as much as a refusal to listen to the other side