she has to have ignored or dismissed a LOT of red flags to get to where she was
Every news she watched told her a certain picture of how the world was.
Every person she talked to swears to her that the world is a certain way (and, if she starts questioning, they get real suspicious of her and maybe might ostracize her from their social circle).
It would be weird if she had arrived at the truth on her own before this point. And usually, it actually takes a lot more than just reading over the primary sources and realizing that they don’t say what the news and all her friends said they say, before someone realizes the truth.
She didn’t ignore any red flags, because the red flags exist in reality. You’re well acquainted with some information about reality that she’s not privy to, and so in your mind it was easy to spot. For her, her world picture is carefully managed and curated, and the instant that she saw some information that it wasn’t the way she’d been told, she realized the truth, told everyone (alienating more or less 100% of her former allies), and started working to try to put it right.
Don’t hedge your support for her, would be my way of looking at it. She wants to stop the Nazis. Okay, sounds great. I wouldn’t kick Eisenhower out of the wagon train because he’s a Republican, while the shooting against the ones who want to kill you and me and also her, is still going on.
Every news she watched told her a certain picture of how the world was.
Every person she talked to swears to her that the world is a certain way (and, if she starts questioning, they get real suspicious of her and maybe might ostracize her from their social circle).
It would be weird if she had arrived at the truth on her own before this point. And usually, it actually takes a lot more than just reading over the primary sources and realizing that they don’t say what the news and all her friends said they say, before someone realizes the truth.
She didn’t ignore any red flags, because the red flags exist in reality. You’re well acquainted with some information about reality that she’s not privy to, and so in your mind it was easy to spot. For her, her world picture is carefully managed and curated, and the instant that she saw some information that it wasn’t the way she’d been told, she realized the truth, told everyone (alienating more or less 100% of her former allies), and started working to try to put it right.
Don’t hedge your support for her, would be my way of looking at it. She wants to stop the Nazis. Okay, sounds great. I wouldn’t kick Eisenhower out of the wagon train because he’s a Republican, while the shooting against the ones who want to kill you and me and also her, is still going on.