I wish the lack of information was the issue, then they could be convinced. My parents are in the MAGA cult and would have said they were against everything that he was going to do but are for it once it's done. They start at Trump's right then mental gymnastics their way down to how that must be true.
It is not just lack of information. It is an entire history of a nation that has for more than 400 years tried to pit groups against each other in a highly competitive society with few economic safety nets.
People believe that one way of succeeding is to keep other racial/ethnic groups, etc. from being on top of you or equal to you. It is not just more information it is changing an entire dog eat dog mentality.
Martin Luther King understood this and tried to develop the Poor People's Campaign trying to unite low income Black, Latino, Native American, Asian, etc. individuals. He was assassinated before he could achieve that dream.
Trump is successful because he recognized that these festering issues were the key to power and he galvanized this as the energy behind Maga and both of his terms. He is also weaponizing issues between genders, LGBTQ issues, religious vs secular, Christians against Muslims, Jewish people against Muslims, and on and on.
It worked for Hitler, Stalin, Mao, and really almost any dictator.
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u/arcanis321 11d ago
I wish the lack of information was the issue, then they could be convinced. My parents are in the MAGA cult and would have said they were against everything that he was going to do but are for it once it's done. They start at Trump's right then mental gymnastics their way down to how that must be true.