Skeptic

It is a well known scientific fact in psychology that simply encountering a proposition will make you more likely to believe it is true long after the fact.

If I tell you, erroneously, that the population of Russia is 10 million people, then if you have no clue, five years later if I asked you about the population of Russia, you would say "I remember hearing it's around 10 million", and some other cunt from the other side of the bar goes, "Yeah! I heard that too!"

It's easy to prey on people's cognitive heuristics. Like, you don't need to know that information on a day to day basis, you got to take the kids to school, and then head off to your two jobs back to back to make enough money to eat. So our brains work at a "best possible result for the lowest average cognitive cost", kind of.

That's the whole shtick. Just bombard people with misinformation, they have neither time nor faculty to make sense of it. That's why human society and democracy is so precious- we agree that we are not going to do that to each other, and cooperate instead.

Of course, sooner or later one of those fucking assholes get born who are all like, "the world is mine and I will gladly dance on the corpses of millions just to be on top, and even that will never be enough". And that's it!

It's easier to destroy a sand castle someone spent hours building on the beach than building one yourself.

I feel like most Republican supporters won't learn or change.

There's going to be a "They thought they were free: Trump Edition" that's going to be extremely depressing. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/They_Thought_They_Were_Free )

"Years"

Get a load of Mr. Fucking Optimistic over here, guys.

We'll have fucking Edward Gibbon writing "The Rise and Fall of the American Empire" in twenty years.