I know this parallel grows old but consider the followers of nazi Germany. They ran after Germany First, country prude, nationalism, etc. Were they all bad people knowingly making bad choices? Were they brainwashed or lulled into a false belief that, even if they could recognize their own cognitive dissonance, they were in too deep to turn back now?

Who knows? But the answer to me is, "yes. Yes it is a cult." shun anyone who doesn't belief.

German Jews sent to concentration camps were often patriotic national-socialists.

Nothing new. Conformance is the expected behavior. Being confident that the only way you suffer is if you don't conform is there too.

She is probably even more stupid than that comment. She is part of the MAGAt cult and nothing will change her mind.

Don't forget she's literally a criminal.

Stockholm Syndrome

A lot of people think stupidity is a virtue.

That the world where being stupid is a disadvantage is intentionally created by someone woke\bad\immoral\treacherous. That them being stupid and loyal will work well in a special system for stupid and loyal people.

When the system around is not such, they are trying to break it to get to their heaven for loyal boors. They really think such exists. That it's morally worth it.

Leopards stole my children’s faces

Trump is an evil narcissist, but I don't fault the working class for leaving the democrats and voting for him. He was promising them (falsely) progressive ideas, like bringing jobs back, fixing the healthcare system. Of course he doesn't really care about that or will do it, but he was the only one talking about it. It always boils down to the economy though, and Biden's economy was horrendous, people, the working class were hurting and all Kamala gave us were platitudes, no substance, no solutions to what mattered to them.

Propaganda is a hell of a drug.

You are a hominid. We are a troupe species. We are susceptible to social manipulation which can overwhelm our reasoning, because we survived based on trust.

Some of us have overstimulated amygdalas because of biology and various kinds of anxiety. This enhances the vulnerability to manipulation by another minority, the sociopaths.

For the species to continue to survive, we must keep the sociopaths from manipulating and the amygdaloids from falling into cults.

If you accept it, this is your mission.

It's, unfortunately, very real. We're here because millions of eligible voters just couldn't be fucking bothered.

These are Cipolla's five fundamental laws of stupidity:

Always and inevitably, everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation.

The probability that a certain person (will) be stupid is independent of any other characteristic of that person.

A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gain and even possibly incurring losses.

Non-stupid people always underestimate the damaging power of stupid individuals. In particular, non-stupid people constantly forget that at all times and places, and under any circumstances, to deal and/or associate with stupid people always turns out to be a costly mistake.

A stupid person is the most dangerous type of person.

"It's true! I'm poisoning the blood of the German people! I suck."

Unless the US bombs her in Iran, she'll be better off.

it would at least make sense