I think one big issue, is that it requires confronting the cognitive dissonance of being a sucker. They’d have to accept that they’ve been fooled for so lobg which is a blow to the ego a lot of people can’t handle.
They don’t want to confront the obvious lies, because they’re invested in believing them. They’re caught in phantasms.
And fear. If you get someone to build up enough fear for everything but you then they feel irresponsible not to vote for you. We, the users of a decentralized Linux forum, are not the type of people to fall into this mindset
But it’s also not that complicated to see through his lies. Or any demagogues for that matter.
That’s what I mean by “against better knowledge”. They have to willfully ignore the warning signs and contradictions. And that I don’t understand.
I think one big issue, is that it requires confronting the cognitive dissonance of being a sucker. They’d have to accept that they’ve been fooled for so lobg which is a blow to the ego a lot of people can’t handle.
They don’t want to confront the obvious lies, because they’re invested in believing them. They’re caught in phantasms.
And fear. If you get someone to build up enough fear for everything but you then they feel irresponsible not to vote for you. We, the users of a decentralized Linux forum, are not the type of people to fall into this mindset