No One Knowingly Believes Lies

The claim at left is completely untrue.  There are people who knowingly believe lies?  Some people wish to be controlled?  Ah….no.   Everyone rejects propaganda and manipulation.

What is happening here is that Trump supporters believe that their man is honorable and truly patriotic, and that the election was stolen from him by leftist radicals.  Anti-vaxxers believe that government and the medical community have formed a conspiracy to take away their freedoms.  Climate deniers believe scientists are corrupt, and are aggressively taking the country on an anti-capitalist, socialist path.

They’re wrong, of course, but they firmly believe all this, and there are entire “news” media outlets, as well as a still-popular ex-president, that support these beliefs.