@lindyli
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Hm, actually, I think it is more complex than that.

a) Leading #GQP and #MAGA members make ample use of this element out of #Goebbels rhetorics playbook to control information/the narrative.

b) The sheep-voting rank and file, on the other hand, has two poles:

1) in order to be able to understand an antagonistic, ever-more complex world, an us-against -them mentality creates a feeling of unity and reduces powerlessness.

2) For many, chiefly uneducated and often...

@lindyli

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...low-income, voting-sheep #GQP members, being fed white-supremacy demagoguery instills in them a feeling of superiority and thus self-esteem that they are finding hard to receive, leave alone merkt, in everyday life .
Furthermore, it strongly reduces the need to analyze and evaluate the world at large, politics in particular, by providing a simple value system to separate "right from wrong", which is not synonymous with true or false on an objective level.
Lastly, which...

@lindyli
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...which is important for such mob-enclined people as on #January6th, it provides an opportunity to live out the baser instincts, e.g. of causing pain to other people, of feeling superior, because "they" are worth less because they belong to a different race, religion, or sex, or have a different sexual orientation.

Just seeing this, indeed, language of lies just as lies ignores the communication-strategic value of it. Repeating a lie often enough, as the #Nazis...