The now-missing account, which posted under the name Docnetyoutube, has a documented history of promoting fake stories. But even with his profile gone, the seeds of the lie had already been sown and spread across the conspiracy ecosystem, driven by right-wing activists and self-styled conservative journalists.
Every time he posts anything on twitter, the replies are filled with that bullshit accusation. Nothing but weird right wing craziness. He did a speech about how him and kamala harris are both gun owners and the don’t want to take away your guns. The replies were all “YOU ARE LYING! YOU WANT TO TAKE AWAY OUR GUNS!” It is so fucking exhausting…
I can’t imagine being a right wing person. Living in a constant 24/7 fantasy where all truths are lies and all lies are truths. Its so fucked.
As someone who left Fundamentalist Christianity, it is exhausting. Your paradigm is constantly “under attack,” because reality has this way of not giving a fuck about your paradigm. And as long as people are generally trying their best to exist within and discover/communicate that reality, the hand of some nebulous, ever-present enemy will always be against you.
It’s fortunate for them that they’re able to tamp down the cognitive dissonance, or they’d likely stress themselves to an early heart attack.
Oh it’s even worse than that. MAGA folks are entirely driven by soul-shaking fear. Imagine being scared and angry every waking hour and how exhausting that must be. Not to mention but those responses literally suppress activity in your prefrontal cortex and reduce executive function in the brain. It sets up a feedback loop of poor decision making and fear/anger responses.
We need something like those cult deprogrammers, but that can work on roughly 100 to 150 million people.
Maybe we could start blasting cat videos in adds for NFL and NASCAR and stuff, tuck in some subliminal messages encouraging therapy.
Cat videos are known to be calming and stuff.