How did they get blind though? It seems like a foregone conclusion that everyone in the MAGA cult is just naturally stupid and willfully ignorant, and they aren't. They are stupid by design and ignorant by design, and the cult weaponizes that judgement in service of keeping cultists from forming connections with people outside the cult. "The Democrats think we're all dumb hicks when we're just everyday folk trying to get by, can't we all agree that they're wrong and also probably lying about us to serve their own nefarious ends?" This question gets asked in a million variations on a 24-hour propaganda firehose and the obvious conclusion is "Yeah, they are wrong. They probably are lying too!" I have seen this play out in my life and once it's been trained into a person it is extremely durable against outside influence. I see it in my family, a lot of them are deep in the MAGA verse. They aren't dumb, some of them are genuinely brilliant, but they are in a cult that prevents them, by design, from seeing outside the bubble.
TW: discussion of suicide
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I got out via a series of lucky breaks, and if those hadn't gone my way, I don't know if I would have been able to pull myself out. A lot of the people who feel the effects of the problems of the system, but are rendered blind to the true nature of them (and are therefore unable to effectively address them), kill themselves. It happens a lot and discussion of it is culturally suppressed. It's seen as shameful. So it becomes another epidemic problem that goes undiscussed and unaddressed. I probably would have been one of the statistics if a few things in my life had gone a little bit differently. It was a relatively near miss as it is. Suicide happens for a lot of reasons, but in my experience, one of the big reasons for suicides among poor people is that they have intolerable problems and they can't see any way to address them. They can't see it by design. The system is designed to prevent certain things from being seen clearly, and it works.