Stupid people gonna stupid
That is the thing that disinformation takes advantage of … the anxiety of not having a narrative to make sense of a world that has changed. The disinformation makes people crave an outer authority to make a complicated world seem easy to digest.
An example is people with kids; as they become consumed with work and family they lose touch with popular culture.
Culture always moves … and then those people’s kids come home from high school one day acting out new music, style, gender, politics … the parents will backlash against it causing the common parent/child coercive relationship that happens frequently in family dynamics. That is because the parents were dis-informed about the shifting cultural playground that youth has become for over a century. And that change made the parents feel vulnerable and they at times respond authoritatively because they are out of touch and losing control.
Trump created a political environment where he targeted people that felt that same sense of power erosion, which is really cultural expansion, and has confused them into giving up any sense of pursuit of happiness for sense of security.
And now they are stuck here with us saying that this is not what they voted for because they were dis-informed.
They knew that they were voting for hateful shit
They just thought they’d be exempt
Way to miss the depth of the point made in the message you’re replying to
I disagree with their premise
I don’t think that people were unaware of what a hateful piece of shit Trump is
Yes, the American public are fed bullshit. Yes, the education system has been destroyed, and yes, the average American is fucking stupid, but absolutely nobody can say that they didn’t know that Trump campaigns on fear and hatred.
No shit…
Make them stupid through poor education and chemicals in the food and water and you can take down a country from inside without even losing a single one of your soldiers.
America was started by ignorant people with poor diets. Their diets were mostly salt pork and beer, their cutlery was loaded with lead, and they drank mercury as a cure-all.
What we have now is worse. They aren’t just poorly educated, but intentionally miseducated. A huge portion of the population are operating in a false reality based on lies.
You miss the point.
Have to admit I only skimmed the article, but i did not think it was intuitive that one of the groups they put people in was those who “desire chaos.” Is that a scientifically recognized trend? Because I don’t really think of that being a common personality trait.
While still very much a minority, I know people who like the idea of people like Trump because they think it’s funny
Essentially, they have the mindset of edgy children
They’re stupid, and every one I’ve encountered is a fucking loser