"Fear is the path to the dark side." It might be only a movie, but it got that right.

Fear leads to anger

Anger leads to hate

Hate leads to suffering

And suffering leads to submission.

Submission is what we see these people doing. It's not so much "brainwashing" as it is submission: "Don't hurt me. I'm a good person. Really. Watch how hard I can submit and prove it!"

Virtue Signalling is just a form of submission. And somehow, "submission" became far far better than fighting back against tyranny, which has been the American and Western way until the last few years.

That probably happened because we had a whole generation of very fearful, overprotected children being taught by old hippies that fighting back was bad. You should be a good person and be nice and submit instead. And those fearful children ate it up.

That's what all the kneeling and chanting and marching and demonstrating and virtue signalling is really about. Even when these people get violent, it is still about submitting and submitting and submitting to criminals (BLM) and death cults (Palestine) and doing exactly what those entities want.

They hate Trump and have no respect for him because they know that ultimately, he won't hurt them.

Same reasons why they hate us and have no respect for us - even when we are their own family members.

But BLM and Palestine and drug cartels and street thugs and other entities will sure as hell hurt them, so those are who they protect and submit to and grovel to - not Trump and not any of us.

They never learned any other way to deal with tyranny except to submit. They grew up being told that fighting back was bad and wrong and they should never, ever do it.

And here we are.