Just observations from my experience with people around me, from living in a 3/4 red area in a purple state, and from having to listened to a couple years of talk radio before podcasts were a thing.
The whole conservative media sphere states what is obviously good and obviously evil, and they repeat it over and over until the simple “truths” they spread get conditioned into people as an agreed-upon set of basic rules about the world. That’s how they’ve become so far detached from reality.
It’s very much like a religion, because if you vote for a democrat you’re basically a bad person or at best mentally ill.
Of course, other political parties and other organizations have their die-hard fanatical supporters. It’s just that in my limited, anecdotal experience, it is expected of everyday folks in the Republican base.
Just observations from my experience with people around me, from living in a 3/4 red area in a purple state, and from having to listened to a couple years of talk radio before podcasts were a thing.
The whole conservative media sphere states what is obviously good and obviously evil, and they repeat it over and over until the simple “truths” they spread get conditioned into people as an agreed-upon set of basic rules about the world. That’s how they’ve become so far detached from reality.
It’s very much like a religion, because if you vote for a democrat you’re basically a bad person or at best mentally ill.
Of course, other political parties and other organizations have their die-hard fanatical supporters. It’s just that in my limited, anecdotal experience, it is expected of everyday folks in the Republican base.