Kentucky State Rep Dan Johnson's*R) story

reminded me of a former neighbor/crook in Broomfield who jumped bail, before being sentenced for theft and fraud, and was on the run for several years before being caught in Kentucky, where he had started a church and was living off the offerings from his 'flock'.
This, and nearly of half of Alabama tried to elect the OBVIOUS perv, Roy Moore to the US Senate.
What is wrong with these people (sheep)? Oh yeah, they swallow FOX 'news'...

KENTUCKY

Lawmaker spun a history of heroics

FRANKFORT, KY.» The Kentucky lawmaker’s résumé included enough material for an award-winning memoir: He was a peace-keeper at the Rodney King riots in Los Angeles, a White House chaplain to three presidents and a 9/11 first responder who gave last rites to hundreds of people at Ground Zero.

But Republican Dan Johnson’s carefully crafted history crumbled this week after an extensively reported story from the Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting. The story tore down his claims and portrayed him as a con man whose deceptions propped up his ministry of a church of outcasts in Louisville and hid a sinister secret: a sexual assault allegation from a 17-year-old girl.

On the church’s website, Johnson claimed to have healed sick people during a visit to South America in 1991, including the incredible story of raising a woman from the dead. The miracles were detailed in a letter from David Fischer, pastor of a church in California. Fischer told the investigative reporting center that he did not witness those events and could not point to anyone who had.

Bottom line, what makes Southern Repub Bible Belters SOOO, gullible that they fall for crap like this, which makes them perfect fodder for politicians like Roy Moore and the Liar in Chief?  Is it in the water, or the hot, humid weather, combined with the lowest education/income in the country or are they just DIFFERENT?