A lot of it is just willful ignorance. For example, a teen works at his first job. Gets his first paycheck. He worked 40 hours at $20 per hour. He forgets about taxes, insurance, etc. His expected paycheck of $800 is actually $563.67. He asks someone older, like a dad, brother, sister, etc., why all this money was taken out of his paycheck. They tell him, “Democrats”, or “The media” or “Obama”.
The teen doesn’t look it up, find other resources and continues to be that way for decades.
That is my theory for most of the willful ignorance.
They can also learn ignorant traits from our own president. “Everybody’s saying…” “Everybody knows…” and all that shit.
The only people who actually read the Constitution since I’ve been alive is either survivalists or sovereign citizen wannabes. And their willful ignorance is upheld because they never bother to read the Amendments or local laws in their county.
Trump’s continuous stream of lies isn’t an accident or brainwashing; it is a deliberate policy to overwhelm any attempt at factual refutation by injecting so many falsehoods per minute that fact-checking is pointless.
Vox: ”Why obvious lies make great propaganda”
Trump’s followers don’t care that he is lying, and in fact they enjoy how much it upsets his detrators that Trump doesn’t care about being caught red-handed in his falsehoods. They call it “Trump Derangement Syndrome”, as if being outraged by such patent malfeasance is somehow an indication of mental illness or baseless distress. And as Trump’s supporters are so fond of saying, “Take him seriously, but not literally,” even though it is impossible to take such a buffoon seriously when he does something like berate a White House News Corps member for asking a straightforward question or when he complains that his own election was invalidated by millions of illegal votes, and if you can’t take a sitting president literally at least at some point it is impossible for him to actually govern or lead.
Trump supporters are just getting what they (think that they) want; someone who will give them the ‘cultural security’ to avoid having to acknowledge that other people not like them also have a say in a democratic society. What they are actually getting is a would-be demagogue who doesn’t even have a clear notion of his own ideology and is simply looking to line his own pockets via executive authority because he is too terrible of a busniessperson to even make a profit running a business with a statistically guaranteed gross take. Unfortunately, that also makes him pliable to people who have actual agendas to maximize profit and power at the expense of working Americans and the environment.
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