As an American, I assure you there was no foreign interference needed in making my neighbors awful people. I assure you, their number 1 tactic is finding people on the fence of being evil scumbags and giving them a nice push in the wrong direction. And this isn’t a recent event. They have been doing this at least since Soviet Union got started. Anyone who has ever wondered what the fuck happened to the brains of their parents, grandparents or even your own brain in the last 20 years. Most probably this.