I look at some people, including former friends, and relatives, and wonder: WTF happened to them?

 How could a person from a good family, with a good education, get so f-ed up in the head?

I usually blame it on FOXNews, Rupert Murdoch’s mind control/money making scheme, but it’s more than that, although I still claim the NUMBER ONE reason for Donald Trump, the LYING, morally bankrupt, fake Christian, criminal conman being a presidential contender is FOXNews, and what it preaches to the gullible and ignorant among us.

But there’s also this:

In movements such as QAnon, the lonely find belonging, the aimless find direction and the angry find validation. And they get to wear a big red cap. Consider baby boomers, who share an alarming amount of fake news online. Many people believe that some mix of cognitive aging, poor digital literacy and too much Fox News is to blame. But this overlooks a bigger issue. Conspiracy-theory-entranced seniors have described to me how, before adopting a QAnon-like brand of what some called “activism,” they felt as if society no longer valued or had use for them. Facing what experts have identified as an “epidemic of loneliness,” they yearned for purpose, community and fulfillment.

By their nature, conspiracy theories provide all of the above. They give supporters an enemy to oppose and a cause to rally around. It’s not difficult to see how churning out Facebook posts (errantly) warning about killer COVID vaccines could have felt like a gratifying self-appointed job in retirement. 

And so goes the article. People feel a need to be connected, to be a part of something, and once they get sucked down the rabbit hole, facts and reality don’t matter.

Consider the fact that over half of Republicans think Trump WON in 2020.

It doesn’t matter that they lost ALL of the over 60 court cases, or the fact that FOX paid over $787 million in fines for their LIES about Dominion Voting Machines.

These morons(R) have their ‘cause’ and a bunch of fellow morons to keep them company, and that’s all that matters to them….