So my SLF's side gig is helping out at an Asian nail salon (she's Vietnamese). She is a super patriot and of course has had lots of um differences of opinion with coworkers and clients the last 3 years.
I asked today if there's been a change in tone, like with gas prices, are people coming around that used to hate Trump now hating Biden etc, and she said it's actually almost everyone, dramatic and near-total reversal. People can't believe how dumb they were, how bad it is, how bad Biden is, they were wrong to hate Trump etc. She said even hard leftists that she's argued with are admitting things.
I find this report super-encouraging as it seems like so many normies just aren't getting it or you can't tell, but people have to be waking up without letting on is what I think is happening - in an environment like that they feel comfortable blabbing (there's probably a name for this, I can't count how many rather personal things I've heard in a neighboring barber chair for example).
And it wasn't just the report but when I asked the question it wasn't just like "yeah" but "OH YEAH. EVERYONE."
People who are converted because of trouble will not be trust worthy. When the trouble leaves they'll go right back to their old ways. The mind must actually change.
I agree. But, we are in the great awakening - the "great" part is it's not just "oops we elected the wrong guy and learned not to do that" but "everything we thought isn't and lots is in fact very bad and we can't have that again" (the not-so-great part is it's a war, we have to win, and it's very possibly going to get a lot worse for a time).