• StupidBrotherInLaw@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    I’m ambivalent. While it’s hard to believe Americans are this stupid, I lived in the US for a time and met several with this caliber of intelligence.

    • itsonlygeorge@reddthat.com
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      6 hours ago

      People believe what they want to believe and what they are told to believe.

      The Trump administration have all since figured out that if you repeat your lies over and over eventually people believe it for the truth. Honestly it started with Bush in 2000 and was the culmination of decades of conservative conditioning starting with Reagan.

      While I understand that some people are frustrated by those in power and their unwillingness to help tue common working class, they don’t have the mental capacity, desire to understand, or vocabulary to express their frustrations. They can only parrot the garbage they see on Fox News that currently has them riled up about the “gov’mint bad” narrative.