straightUp wrote:
First of all, I do think that many Trump supporters are indoctrinated, but this indoctrination is not so much based on Trump himself as it is based on decades of slow-cooked, right-wing propaganda which Trump is leveraging.
Over the course of the last 20 years, I have made several automotive journeys from coast to coast and all you have to do is turn the radio on to really feel the weight of this propaganda. You can only hear a full spectrum of music and news for about 2% of the journey. The rest of it is all country music and right-wing propaganda on AM radio for thousands of miles of emptiness and there is literally no escaping it without turning the radio off. It was like this 20 years ago and it's like this now.
This is what Trump chose to tap into and it makes sense, because no other realm of opinion is as willing to accept a narrative without question. With red-state America being almost entirely defined by faith, questions and challenges are almost entirely eliminated and an overwhelming sense of pride drives it home with an obsession toward supremacy and righteousness.
So in the confidence game, in which Trump is a superstar athlete, marking red-state Americans that are already prone to faith-based, pride-driven narratives almost guarantees a mesmerizing show that obscures the little man behind the curtain.
This is why I always refer to Trump's one-term presidenc as a parade of PR stunts. With a complete absence of bi-partisan legislation, multilateral diplomacy and long-term strategy, Trump's super-biased agenda was entirely composed of one-sided PR stunts in which he scored brownie-points for affirming the righteousness of the alt-right and suggesting the demise of everyone else. Any of the previous presidents could have achieved the same level of dedication among his followers if only they could have abandoned their work on hard problems and chose instead to patronize his base.
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Ultra Liberals, & slow thinking Demo'rats: have *Patriotism, confused with *indoctrination!
IT'S SIMPLY A *State of mind...*Not an obligatory treasonist attitude, foisted upon decent Americans by
Communist inspired Liberals. I have traversed this continent, at home here, & abroad, in 15 countries....I have
inquired, & listened to many Europeans, Hispanics, Italians, Portugese, Spaniards, frenchmen, Canadians, & more...
It is a general consensus, that the Democrats, of America led by the Biden regime, of non-thinking, politically
blind, & The poorly educated followed this *Mistake", of American politics....They mostly all think *Biden is a
dangerous fool! They are incredulously stunned, by the elections here, re: Clinton, Obammy, & Biden...They ask
me "How could this ever happen in America?" My reply is: ~Criminalization of our Political system, is the culprit, &
it is all on the Democrats, & a hand full, of Republicans...called affectionately: "The swamp"!
They turn, shaking their heads, wander off, pondering the dilemma, of a failed democracy, from a nation, that has
"since its inception", The Greatest republic in the history of the world! ~It took only 3 men to destroy our
heritage....&, "3" ALL DEMOCRATS! **BLAME THE ELECTORATE, FOR POLITICAL SUICIDE, ALA Greed, &
ignorance!
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