Self-centred people will only wake up when they (collectively) lose what they value (status, money, reputation, privilege, authority). They don't care about truth, honour, dissent, liberties, justice.
If we all have to march through some difficult times in order to unify, so be it!
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in the end they will fight the peeps they admired and agreed with the most throughout this test no matter how critically wrong they both were over a loaf of bread.