Was discussing politics with a Neo-lib recently, told her, “But when I pointed out Biden was demented, you said, ‘Trump’s just as bad’. Can’t you at least admit you were badly misled by your TV?”

To which she replied, “Trump isn’t all there, he slurs his words at the end of sentences.”

I don’t care what you think of Trump or whether you disagree with him. Please just acknowledge REALITY that, for better or worse, he DOES NOT have dementia, and if you argued that he was just as demented as Biden a year ago because your TV told you so, just admit you were misled.

But what I realized is for that person we are not having the discussion I think we’re having. I’m saying, “let’s get to the truth of what’s going on here,” and she’s saying, “GO TEAM GO!”

In the end, she’s just chanting the fucking fight song she was hypnotized into by the TV. There’s nothing more to it than that.

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Trump derangement syndrome is a real thing. You cannot rationalize with those people.

It goes both ways, people who support some of the things the trump admin is doing would object if it were the other guys.

Instead of realising that both sides are working against the people

Bro my mom tried telling me trump trying to give people 5k per child born was a bad thing… i immediately asked her why she thought it was ok for her dem choice to give 6k?

She had no answer and seemly forgot both candidates said this while they were running…

It's a form of insanity. Wife’s mom argued she didn’t get covid at a wedding where it spread because she was vaccinated. Wife points out everyone we know who was vaccinated had covid 3x. Mom changes the subject as if she didn’t hear her.

My mom didn’t get the picture that when we saw the family during the holidays that everyone who got the jab ended up getting sick with Covid but I didn’t, wonder why that is?

I've been rather shocked at the vitriol with this and the blind following I see with many Americans I meet in Costa Rica. Its as if cannot admit to one belief is wrong through fear that they might have to think about other things too

i heard a prophesy from the early 2000s that a spiritual rabies was coming to America that didn’t yet have a cure.

i thought that was interesting

I think there are all kinds of spiritual rabies these days. Sometimes it feels like we're living in the twilight zone, where nothing makes sense.

but at the same time i see others becoming more and more responsive to the truth.

like distinctions are being made.

This is like getting a die hard sports fan to admit one of 'their' players is not as good as someone on a different team.

People trapped in this game struggle with objectivity.