What you just wrote is testament to our modern media, the rhetoric the use, what they report and don't and most of all, where the get their news and from whom...
Reading the "modern media" this morning I may be reading into things that aren't there but let's see; So, I'm wondering if some of the djt cultists have simply fallen for an "affinity fraud" Whether religious, political, racial, regional, or a personal vulnerability, etc,.. some scammer has Infiltrated your group and you are duped.
Or, how about being duped by a foreign power using ur poor azz to score geopolitical points
Facebook owner Meta Platforms has removed more than 500 accounts linked to an online disinformation network primarily based in China.
The accounts had promoted the claims of a fake Swiss biologist called "Wilson Edwards", who alleged the US was meddling in efforts to find the origins of Covid-19.
Edwards' comments had been widely carried by Chinese state media outlets.
I don't know if I buy the conclusion (:distrust that results from..) in this next one which appears to be
I suck at playing the game so I'm going to make an excuse and find someone to blame
(Or, so insecure in that the need to be part of something or group overwhelms the ability to see the obvious)
Seems to me to stubbornly embrace that 'rugged individualist' champion for oneself; without doing any modicum of heavy lifting (not that heavy when contradictions are relentless and sheesh: just follow the money fuk!) ..figure it out (get tools u need like for any job and just do it - an education in this case, I suppose.. ironically, stop "distrusting urself" or identifying with being a lazy fook, lol ;). This goes for supporting oneself as well.