Chip Z'Hoy wrote:What's strange to me is how transparently phony guys like Trump and Alex Jones are. It does not take a genius to see right through those guys. And yet...people's desire to believe what they want, no matter how stupid, is so strong that these guys have loyal, diehard followers.
It's so ridiculous to say "I'm not the liar--EVERYONE ELSE IS." And yet people want so badly to believe it, they go along with it.
This has always been a thing but the internet has amplified it to the nth degree. If you want to believe Obama orchestrated Sandy Hook, there are a lot of people who agree with you. There are a lot more people providing evidence to the contrary but, again, they're all liars. The people who agree with you are telling the truth.
How weirdly childish is that? What a way to go through life.
This is why we have people like NeverSurrender. Their brains are fucked up.
It really feels like a lot of people underestimated the degree of anger to which many Americans had during the eight years of Obama. All told, those were very positive, productive years, as that's what Obama set out to do, but they had a lot of people seething. The Fox News/Breitbart culture is doing major damage to America. It's a cancer. And Trump is playing to that crowd. But I just don't see him triumphing in the long run. I don't think he can permanently outmaneuver the elements pushing against him.
But when he ran, it's like Trump realized, "People are angry, they'll let someone in who tells them the last eight years were shit and won't even care what I do." The comment about shooting a guy on 5th Avenue said it all. That really did chillingly point to everything that's come since.
So yes, people want to believe in someone like Trump, but eventually, when the reality of their lives fails to match up to his promises, the cognitive dissonance might be increasingly hard for them to maintain in their own minds.