MAGA Supporters are good people
Washington DC 16 Jan 2022
MAGA Supporters are good people
They are also victims. The vast majority of MAGA faithful likely do not know that the people they trust to interpret the world for them said one thing to the leader and the absolute opposite to MAGA. How would they know? Active measures have been used to prevent news getting out that the people they trust and rely on are not what they seem.
MAGA folks, like the rest of us, are just trying to get by. They are busy holding on to difficult low pay jobs and making ends meet. They are not investigative journalists. They are not disinformation experts. They have been told for decades now that anyone who does not agree with what they constantly hear on their chosen channel, is an idiot or enemy or both. Because of this, MAGA fundamentally distrust even a hint of a different viewpoint. They have been well trained.
Did any of the Fox entertainers own up this week or double down? You know the answer. Because no one that matters is going to call them on it and any outting of that conduct will be painted as counter propaganda.
Unless MAGA can be reached they will never know. It's not their fault. This situation is the product of decades of indoctrination.
The tragedy is MAGA will fight for what they have been told to believe. My faith in them as fellow citizens is such that if they were told the truth by those they trust - over time - they would back off from the 'fight'. That is not going to happen. Consequently, big trouble continues to accelerate towards American society.
From the article
"And their evidence? It was fugitive then, and no one has tracked it down since. That’s because it doesn’t exist. It’s a conspiracy-minded, ratings-driven hallucination. Just this week, The Associated Press published a review of “every potential case of voter fraud in the six battleground states” where Trump has disputed Biden’s victory. It found fewer than 475 cases."
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/16/opinion/fox-news-trump-january-6.html