If we only knew this was coming... someone wrote a book about the mass brainwashing of a population with never ending wars and propoganda... almost 75 years ago George Orwell predicted this exact scenario and we stupid humans have done nothing to prevent it.
I too have a brother I lost to the dark side. My mother and I try to figure out when exactly he went off the rails but we think it was when he worked at the RNC as an IT helpdesk type person back in the mid 1990s in Washington DC. From there he started getting kooky ideas from Rush Limbaugh and other crazies on right wing AM radio. Here is a person that grew up in the same exact upbringing as me. Two years younger and I can't have a normal conversation with him because it always leads to some outlandish conspiracy. His latest thing is that the world is flat, I kid you not. My mother and I were flabbergasted. This is what propaganda can do to your mind when you don't talk to people outside of your little bubble of hate and conspiracies.