This article hits close to home..I feel like I’m losing her’: the families torn apart by older relatives going far right

[elduvelle@neuromatch.social]

This article hits close to home..
I feel like I’m losing her’: the families torn apart by older relatives going far right

Here's also a short film with an example of such a situation: A family tea

What can we do when this happens to us? How to convince people that the conspiracy is not where they think it is, that immigrants are used as a scapegoat for the benefit of far-right conservatives who just want to enrich themselves?
#UkPol

[shye@deadrobots.social]

@elduvelle@neuromatch.social I'm in the process of working through this with someone at the moment. I'm not a professional, nor formerly educated, but psychology has been an on and off special interest of mine for at least 20 years. I've read a lot of books and have a fundamental understanding of how the mind works.
This particular family member had been watching a lot of YouTube during lock-down, and the algorithms had been sending them to disguised far-right gateways - which I'm sure is a familiar story. They now get their perspective of the world from GBNews (British far-right mainstream TV news channel), and believe their thoughts to be their own - despite just regurgitating what they hear word-for-word.
I do wish that I had some actual definitive resource to consult, but I'm basing the process on my understanding of different areas.
It's far too much to write about here, but people develop a model of how they see the world around them based on experiences. When it comes to far right propaganda, it is fundamental pillars (of belief) that have been infiltrated and altered (over time through repetition), so that everything built on top is then altered also, but seems 'logical' and rationalized, despite actually being contradictory and adverse to reason.
It should be noted that they will defend any abrupt attack on these pillars (with anger, mockery etc), because any alternative truths causes cognitive dissonance.
The way to fix it is a reversal of how they got there in the first place, and takes time lightly hammering on pillars until cracks form, making them question details, then themself. This then becomes a rift, a separation, which causes them to start questioning everything built on top of it.
A good example of this in the wild is Marjorie Taylor-Green, who we have been watching deprogramme herself in real-time - following one of her belief system pillars being shattered over the Epstiene files cover up. It made her question everything else and brought down more pillars.