Tony StarkDec 17, 2022

Nobody I know complains about not being able to find workers or having to wait an extra 2 minutes for a pizza or finding a repairperson as fast as they want more than Republican voters.

They also blame everyone and everything imaginable except what the reality is.

Trump, covid slowed down immigration. Now employers can’t find workers:
https://wapo.st/3W6ipfv

Show threadRobert DeWolfe 🌹
@TonyStark Same as in Canada. The issues that drive the pathological anger of the dangerous, vocal populist minority don't even have to be true. They just have to be repeated enough times to give them the illusion of truth. And all being initiated by political opportunists, Christo-fascists and the political entrepreneurs whose job it is to create these myths and strategies. Huge swaths of the population are being grifted and they don't even know it
Dec 17, 2022 at 4:07pmWeb
Show threadTony StarkDec 17, 2022
@TheWolfe Sadly yes, it’s a worldwide problem now.
Show threadMollyNYCDec 17, 2022

@TheWolfe @TonyStark

The DSM describes several disorders that entail being caught in fantasies that are just too satisfying to pull out of, and bring yourself back to reality.

I hypothesize this is what has happened to the MAGA crowd (and its counterparts in other countries). The rightwing bubble spreads BS, but it makes these people much happier than reality—which would explain why they’re so impervious to facts.

Show threadnhbDec 18, 2022
@TheWolfe @TonyStark why it’s critical media and influencers intentionally deconstruct — not simply negate, the false claims, as that actually reinforces the lies https://www.topospartnership.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/FSB1_Negation_16May2018.pdf
Show threadNorm Hamilton - 8th DecadeDec 18, 2022
@TheWolfe @TonyStark
Robert, what's the possibility that many of them do know it but it fits and confirms their already established mindset? I consider it "intentional ignorance."