LH,

You need to think about it for a second before you take comment about calling others brainwashed as personal affront. Because calling an opponent in an argument "brainwashed", is angry and confrontational.

Do not pretend to be above the fray as you ally yourself and suck up to a person who is angry and confrontational in nearly every post.

If you are not calling people "brainwashed" why are you answering the question below...

"How come there are people, subjected to exactly the same society and media who see other people as being brainwashed but not themselves?"

with "Because,"