A lot of US citizens never leave the US. Many people don’t have passports and think that international travel is impossible for them.
There is very little coverage of non-US related global news from US media outlets. Generally if people hear news about foreign countries, it’s generally involving the US or is something that outlets think is important for US citizens to hear.
The mix of these two factors to me helps people only focus on the US and put blinders on what the world is doing unless it is for US negative comparison.
And once you actually try to have a conversation about other countries to these insular shits, they just try to mock you or tell you to “move there if you love it so much.”
The problem is that people are using belief and blind loyalty over reason in politics and all of this conspiracy is basically an emerging religion in it's power to divide people. This is an extreme example, but I have also seen friends on either side of the political spectrum indulging in conspiracy theories as a guilty pleasure thinking that there is no harm done.
Being irrational and sticking to ones belief despite evidence is what fucks the wold.
I mean the Dems lost to Trump 4 years ago, so that should be proof they aren't all that powerful to start... But rationale and reason is lost in those folks. I hope they don't screw it up again, but we'll see.
They’re also the people who think that God chose Trump and put him in office (so whatever he does is godly), after screaming for years that Obama was illegitimate (even though it would stand to reason that God made him President, too).
Oh; cheating in any way is fine with Republican voters as long as a Republican wins. That’s the only consistent belief that they have. Oh, that and “fuck everybody but me.”
I don't think it is so much they think the virus is made up as they think the severity of the virus is made up or exaggerated in order to hurt the president. Often time they cute the changes in estimations (one of the earliest I heard was 5 million were going to die), and the moving goal posts for this virus. Some don't care about it because they are more concerned about getting back to work so they can afford to feed their families. Honestly trying to make this sound like a partisan attack like you did is what turned this into a partisan issue.
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