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 p***e 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, p***e-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 presidency 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.

Your point about specific instances is fair enough. I will give it some thought and get back with you.
However, I think the example you use is suspect. The government spent billions, if not trillions of dollars in paying for the C19 v*****es, then attempted REPEATEDLY to make them mandatory, while at the same time REPEATEDLY besmirching and even outlawing any other treatments or preventatives. Unconstitutionally and through lying to us, using government agencies forced to support their lies.

Howdy Ya'll

It's been a while since I've posted on OPP.

It's because I've been having too much fun on an extended vacation with my Angel

It started with a few weeks at my Uncle's mountain compound in the Mojave desert and from there we literally went wandering.

It was one hell of an adventure and I'll likely post a thread or two about the experience.

We got back home yesterday and the drive as we neared home was painted in an explosion of wildflowers.

My Angel loves that kind of stuff and it made for a perfect welcome to home sweet home.

Today I woke up to the news of all the current crap going on in this wretched world and I told my Angel that we should just go back on vacation and stay there.

I then remembered that I can always go to my friends and enemies on OPP and parade my toxic masculinity in the form of voicing my personal opinion.

So without further adieu , I say that this once great country we call America, would most definitely return to and then go on to exceed far beyond its long lost glory, if we could just get rid of these damned Q***rs, B****s And Democrats.

Until next time...........................................Happy Trails my buckaroos