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  • Definitely resonates with my own personal experiences. During a period of my life where I was feeling lost and doing menial jobs and not in college like I had originally planned, I listened to a lot of conservative radio and agreed with many of the fake outrages they spoused. Hannity, Laura Ingraham, Bill O’Reilly, Jay Severin (local to Boston), etc… Didn’t care too much for some of the racial dog whistle undertones, but I easily ignored it.

    Now, nearly 20 years later with a degree, a career, and a family, I can’t believe I not only listened, but I enjoyed, agreed with, and absorbed their talking points. I was pro Iraq war, pro torture, pro-small to no government (i.e. low taxes, no handouts), hated PC culture. Things that would have turned the odds against me in life given my status at the time and I didn’t even realize it. Fortunately, id consider myself a reformed conservative today.