If you asked them what their dogma is and where it comes from, they wouldn't have any reply. These people are narcissistic, unserious and willfully illiterate.

I am convinced that gun owners should be required to carry gun insurance... (policies for every gun they own) and I say that as a gun owner.... we have to carry car insurance, another lethal weapon that at least has a plausible other function. I live in a Blue State. Liberals also own guns, we just don't post pictures of them or open carry them in public. We actually follow the laws of our state for permits.

Exactly.

It's a coping mechanism for having a purely emotional relationship (i.e. pure tribalism) with a political "side" that has now been going on for so long and so intensely that it has become part of their personal identity, and then being negativelly impacted by the choices of the leaders of "their" side.

By this point such people would have to accept that what is now a huge part of their personal identity is bullshit, and people with the psychological and intelectual maturity required to be able to accept something like that and move on wouldn't have become tribalist muppets in the first place.

They will never, ever do that, rather what they do is invent excuses and deflections of blame.

This but unironically.

It's called Sunk Cost Fallacy, a basic concept in economics that even explains how gambling addictions begin and why it's so hard for people to stop until they've lost everything.

It kinda makes sense to me. If I believed in the judeo christian god - an omnipotent being that has a vengeful, murderous history and has the emotional maturity of a 3 yo - yes I'd be living in fear of it.

"I have no Ethics or Morals, so I only ever do the right thing because I fear the wrath of an All Knowing and All Powerful entity if I don't"

Firstly because it's a meaningless platitude that doesn't actually make sense

The world runs on meaningless platitudes for these people!

I am not disagreeing with you; you're very much correct. But I think it's important to point out and not just let it pass by.

It's all part of the talking point conditioning and conforming that the right leans on so heavily. You need to superficially signal the right virtues with your appearance and speech.

purity on their ideals otherwise they don’t vote.

and somehow too dumb to realize their immature reaction drastically hurts those ideals.

Average Adult US reading level is between a 5th and 6th grader.

At least 15% are at 2nd grade or below, ie, functionally illiterate.

Only around 5% to 10% can read at a level where they can perform their own critical analysis of different news sources covering the same topic, evaluate for bias, emphasized details, left out context, etc.

... Most Americans are indeed thumb sucking morons.

Yeah, you're talking about people, many of whom can only read on a fourth grade level and it's not possible to cram all the nuance of Government and Economics into a ten second TikTok video.

They're heartless morons. Idk why they're so heartless but their idiocy has been planned and implemented for decades.

As an expert on the subject who has spent my life working with farmers around the globe.

70% of them are fucking superstitious idiots who believe the craziest shit.

25% of them are of average intelligence who do their best and work hard.

5% of the are intelligent wonderful people who are highly technical and skilled.

The socio-economic reasons for why this occurs is interesting (at least to me). Remember farming has had centuries of pressure for migration for rural living to urban. Rural populations are isolated and historically have lacked access to higher education, healthcare, mental health, etc. So you have a constant brain drain, combined with lower relative mental and physical health.

So how the fuck do these morons manage to grow a crop? They outsource the decision making to "trusted advisors". Government agents, agronomist, fieldman, etc. these are the people who are actually making the day to day decisions on most of the these farms. What to fertilize with, what to spray, when to harvest, when to plant etc... they do it all the thinking while the idiots ride around in the luxury tractor cabins letting the GPS stear as they listen to talk radio or watch videos.

Oklahoma, 1936: "I'm going to ignore centuries of established dry farming techniques here on this semi-arid plain. What could possible go wrong?"

Oklahoma, 2024: "I'm going to vote to re-elect the guy whose economic policies nearly bankrupted me the first time. What could possibly go wrong?"

Farming isn’t farming anymore. It’s all automated. And owned by corporations.