Ignoring facts and the truth become acts of followership and loyalty to one's cult leader. The process manufactures followers who will believe, and, therefore, do anything. What every dictator wants in his pocket. They need it to stay a dictator.
@rbreich I got the same feels based on his comments made to the press after the trial. Is this a new phase for maga or has it already transpired, the suspension of belief in factual undeniable truths as a requirement of their cult followers.
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This is just like how Republicans now will swear up and down that Trump never said that "there were good people on both sides" when the White supremacists rioted in Charlottesville.
@rbreich In our case (USA), the MAGOTS are drawn to his evil aura, either too stupid to realize it’s a lie, or it’s understood with a wink, while both dig his white superiority vibe, and the prospect of being rewarded by virtue of being on the side of Der Fuehrer.
Trump has a reason to make these LIES, they are distractions, "I never said #lockherup"
It enables TV news shows, to say, cancel out #kenburns speech
But, the corporate news COULD have a 15min special news segment on Ken Burns, it was the top corporate board members who want to have this "horse race" campaign event
Sad, because money is is being made and WILL be made, they don't NEED to do this "horse race" TV, it's not education, not productive
"and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the #BigLie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods.
...Even though the facts which prove this to be so may be brought clearly to their minds, they will still doubt & waver & will continue to think that there may be some other explanation.”
Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, chapter 10, "The Big Lie"
@rbreich When Orange Fuhrer Trumpoops first slithered into , 'The White House' I was asked, by a local 'News Paper.' My views on said Sawdust Hitler, Replicant. I said, "Trumpoops should be made to wear a Nazi Uniform. Because that's what it is". The same applies to, Butcher Biden.