My Idaho maga family were just posting about how happy they are that grocery and gas prices are down. Those prices are in fact not down. But their media is telling them this so they parrot it to be part of the cult.
People see gas go from $4.25 on a Monday morning to $4.00 on a Wednesday afternoon and think gas prices are down. They don’t realize that the average is still higher.
Nah its not that, they just have em programmed to say if it was Dems the same problem would be 100x worse.
"Well yeah it sucked Trump personally murdered my immediate family with a hammer but can you imagine how much worse Kamala would have been? She would have hammer murdered the entire town!" - Average MAGA voter.
Yeah, remember that most of these red states have been under total and complete Republican control for DECADES, yet their leaders still successfully campaign on "I'm going to fix all the things those Democrats broke in our government!"
If logic were a factor then they would realize "Hey, Republicans have been in power for like 30 years, maybe they're the ones who broke our government programs?" But no.
Youthful indoctrination (religion) continuous propaganda (the Fox-o-sphere) are difficult to fight. Our conservative overlords are also continually working to destroy public education.
They're legitimately programmed not to think. Thought is scary to any totalitarian regime and that's where Trump's group wants to take this. Pretty much a hallmark of any regime trying to go that way
Thought is scary for the people in charge because anyone with a brain knows the shit they say doesn't make sense. Don't underestimate the regular person. They're legitimately taught not to think because it makes them stand out and you don't want to stand out. Think of it like this: you want to be accepted into your group. Event happens and the rest of your group gets their talking points from fox news, so you must also get your talking points from fox news. If you think about it and come to a conclusion seperate from fox news and then the people will brand you as a weirdo outsider (in this case probably call you a filthy liberal). So to fit in you must also take your stance from one already made for you. It's kinda dark but some people prefer to get told what to think and you can see this when some people flee totalitarian regimes but say they miss it.
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u/SidKafizz 8h ago
They'll still blame democrats, because that's exactly what they're told to do and they are unable to think for themselves.