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Understanding Conspiracy and Mainstream Thinking
The 2 basic tenets of conspiracy theorists are:
1 The official story is not the true story and very often a blatant lie.
2 There are hidden powerful forces manipulating events and the public for their own benefit,
*without regard for and often to the detriment of the populace,
*including using the media for propaganda, indoctrination and brainwashing.
---Details vary wildly and include a whole vocabulary of terms such as "Deep State" and "False Flag"
The basic tenet of Mainstream Thinking is that
*the official stories, actions and pronouncements of government and authorities, and
*reporting from media
*are all more or less true and
*are being done for the benefit of the public
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Just like all human beings, some conspiracy theorists will believe anything they hear or read, others will look deep into the evidence before believing. This is exactly what the general public does, generally believing without question what their trusted news sources and the authorities tell them.
Most non-conspiracy theorists dismiss and close their minds to all "conspiracy theories" because some of them are so "out there".
Additionally, many people, both conspiracy buffs and mainstream, react emotionally to what they hear and confuse that with thinking, especially when their deep fears are triggered.
It's too much to look into everything we're told, so what happens is that people adopt a mindset, a tendency to either think it's all true or it's all lies, to either accept or reject blindly. The big variable is which information sources people trust. Generally all else follows.
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A LOT EASIER
It is a lot easier for Democrats to hate and obsess about Trump than to look in the mirror and admit to themselves that a large portion of the country is so deeply unhappy with the Democratic party and D policies and for many good reasons that they have been driven to support a guy that many of them really don't even like or believe in but consider to be a better choice than what Democrats offer.
The 2 main groups supporting Trump are
A) working people- these people see the open border and all the financial aid being given to immigrants, they see all the money going to Ukraine and they say "What About Us". Many are still suffering from the many destructive effects of the lockdowns
B) people who still hold some traditional values who are tired of and angry at the Democratic party constantly spitting on and expressing contempt for them.
The Democratic party is rightly seen as being ruled by comfortable middle class elites who have no understanding whatsoever of what it's like to be a working class person in this country in 2024. Trump is even starting to attract a very large number of black voters because they feel the Democratic policies on crime are putting their lives at risk.
Meanwhile Democrats seek to cancel primaries and keep candidates off ballots, and not just Trump. They seek to keep control of a country that rejects them. They would cancel elections if they could.
The Anti-Democratic Party
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THE REASON
There is a reason for the 8 year assault on the psyches of Democrats with nonstop fearmongering about Donald Trump constantly repeated in lockstep by all blue media.
No doubt the best psychologists in the world were hired to design the strategy to turn people who in their youth said Question Authority, protested war and were totally against censorship and authoritarian control, into fearful angry people who now obey without question and demand that everyone else do so, who now support war, totally support censorship, and even supported the government forcing people into medical procedures if they wanted to keep their jobs. Now they are even against choice in elections, not even having party primaries because they are too frightened to, instead letting their party leaders choose the candidates. They have become against Democracy itself. The very people who were the greatest obstacles to an authoritarian takeover of America have become the greatest supporters of it. Remarkable.
A whole generation has had their souls twisted. In their youths they were about love. Now they've been turned into being all about fear. Deliberately