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View submission: Helping MAGAs Understand Stupidity
I think the answer to this is something a lot of his supporters would have a hard time contextualizing because of American individualism beats them for their life almost 100% of the time.
They live in a racist society, yet believe they don’t benefit from racism or that racism is both an institution in this country and a personally held belief. I mentioned this in another post but if they believe they are not racist, and this is something else I could argue about, that they are not responsible for racial disparity or that the institution of racism can’t be real.
They are sheltered and ignorant with a very narrow view of the world and all that has happened historically up until this point. They don’t understand how material conditions influence society, themselves included, and they either never learned about the Industrial Revolution or choose not to realize how it changed our lives completely. I bring this up because so many of them seem to have this mindset that people survived without all of these worldly delights, like phones, before. I also think this is why they believe that we can magically ramp up US production.
All of this would not be impossible to work with, but they’re also victims of this mentality that they have nothing more to learn or that whatever they have read or seen is something that can be taken at face value. I don’t know that this is necessarily unique to them, but many of them are victims of this.
On the more extreme end they just are way too willing to believe the most absurd bullshit that’s hardly based in reality and it borders on a schizophrenic worldview that has them highly paranoid and fearful which is more a reflection of how so many people have been failed by the overall system in this country, but still at an incredible detriment. I do feel like there is a lot of cult elements with hardcore Trump supporters and they are victims of extremely high level narcissistic abuse that is clearly not as easy to remove yourself from when it’s a political movement and political leader than say a narcissistic parent or spouse.
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