Based on my interactions, I think the delusional/pedophilic demographic is far outweighed by those who are simply deeply ignorant (no comment on racism).
It’s not that they’re ignoring the evidence about him, or even support him in spite of it (though that definitely happens too). They live in a bubble where they just never see any negative news about him. Their news sources either ignore those stories entirely, or spin them beyond all recognition. Whenever something negative gets too big, they’re told it’s fake news, or that the Democrats are doing it even worse.
This. They’re told, e.g., that the Epstein stuff is all a smear campaign by Democrats. And they believe it because it’s hammered into them and because of tribalism.
If my father believed Trump was involved with Epstein and the raping of children, he’d never have voted for Trump. But instead he’s convinced that Trump is God-appointed to save America from those evil Democrats who want to corrupt kids with trans ideology. He’s stuck in an algorithmically-secured propaganda bubble.
My in-laws are these kind of people. They voted for a lot of politicians, local and federal, because their church told them to because these politicians didn’t support abortion. That’s all they needed, no other policy or information required. If they questioned it they’d get ostracized from their church circle, so why bother.
If we chatted about these politicians. Typically they were not aware of the deeper topics and would genuinely be disturbed by them, but their responses always went back to, well I just can’t vote for X they are pro-abortion and the church doesn’t support that.
They need someone to tell them what to do and they cling to these groups because they have never been self sufficient.
Nothing like an imaginary problem/thought exercise used to manipulate voters. Think of the unborn babies! Of course, ignore all the actual living babies. God these people are so fucking stupid.
I was reading last night about the reversal of the EPA ruling on C02. They were using propaganda like the “religion of climate change”.
That got my wheels spinning! Wait a minute. If it is a “religion” then don’t you have to respect it!?
Truth is that could give a shit about your Magical Sky Daddy beliefs, they only care if it serves their purpose.
Based on my interactions, I think the delusional/pedophilic demographic is far outweighed by those who are simply deeply ignorant (no comment on racism).
It’s not that they’re ignoring the evidence about him, or even support him in spite of it (though that definitely happens too). They live in a bubble where they just never see any negative news about him. Their news sources either ignore those stories entirely, or spin them beyond all recognition. Whenever something negative gets too big, they’re told it’s fake news, or that the Democrats are doing it even worse.
This. They’re told, e.g., that the Epstein stuff is all a smear campaign by Democrats. And they believe it because it’s hammered into them and because of tribalism.
If my father believed Trump was involved with Epstein and the raping of children, he’d never have voted for Trump. But instead he’s convinced that Trump is God-appointed to save America from those evil Democrats who want to corrupt kids with trans ideology. He’s stuck in an algorithmically-secured propaganda bubble.
My in-laws are these kind of people. They voted for a lot of politicians, local and federal, because their church told them to because these politicians didn’t support abortion. That’s all they needed, no other policy or information required. If they questioned it they’d get ostracized from their church circle, so why bother.
If we chatted about these politicians. Typically they were not aware of the deeper topics and would genuinely be disturbed by them, but their responses always went back to, well I just can’t vote for X they are pro-abortion and the church doesn’t support that.
They need someone to tell them what to do and they cling to these groups because they have never been self sufficient.
You just described basically my mom’s entire family.
Nothing like an imaginary problem/thought exercise used to manipulate voters. Think of the unborn babies! Of course, ignore all the actual living babies. God these people are so fucking stupid.
I was reading last night about the reversal of the EPA ruling on C02. They were using propaganda like the “religion of climate change”.
That got my wheels spinning! Wait a minute. If it is a “religion” then don’t you have to respect it!?
Truth is that could give a shit about your Magical Sky Daddy beliefs, they only care if it serves their purpose.
They must have gold fish memories because it was Trump’s apparatus that pushed the whole Epstein thing to begin with.