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They're not choosing to be gullible. They're being brainwashed. FOX news uses the very same methods used on US soldiers in Korea.
Viewers are suckered in with scary news and hate pieces that affirm common conservative presumptions and suspicions. They're invited to disregard any contradicting news stories and disconnect from all other news media sources. And then they're coached in MAGA rhetoric and ideology until they know all the thought-terminating clichés by heart.
In the end they imagine liberals doing despicable things (as plausible as They're eating the dogs!) and are convinced liberals need to be hunted down, imprisoned and executed. Also that anyone MAGA or who doesn't virtue-signal as MAGA is a liberal.
We know FOX News uses this method.
We know human beings are susceptible to this kind of manipulation.
All our regulatory bodies are captured, and laws against the practice, are neutered. The media agencies who do this for MAGA are sponsored heavily by the ultra-wealthy, as are influencers who toe the same line.
The only questions are, how pervasively effective is it? (the 2024 election speaks volumes.), How much can the MAGA faithful suffer before they start doubting the message? And, is there anything that can be done to reprogram them?
Exactly, the same way Nazis got power and so many other bad people too.
There are believers of cyclical history among the ultra wealthy, I wonder how much money is being spent to encourage a crisis in the hope of seeing the golden age on the other side.