Trump Voters Trust Ex-President More Than Their Family and Friends: Poll

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Trump voters trust ex-president more than their family and friends: Poll
newsweek.com

Former President Donald Trump's supporters say they hold him as a source of true information over their family, friends, and religious leaders, according to a new CBS News/YouGov poll out on Sunday.

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For anyone following along, this is 100% what propaganda tries to do. Tells you not to trust anyone but them, tells you everyone but them lies. This is classic state actor behavior.

I didn't tell anybody to trust me. I'm telling you to question your own cult of authority. If you think the US is any different than any other cult, it's because you're brainwashed.

A demonstrable lie. I don’t trust government actors.

Yet you accept the Jonestown story uncritically.

I reject your story. I don’t trust the government.

False dichotomy. My alternative version of events comes from lack of trust in the government's narrative.

Yeah, sure dude. Then why do are you arguments ring of being a government actor?

I don’t see any dichotomy here. You just work for the state.

In hospice, we call what you're going through the denial, bargaining, and anger stages of grief. The truth is, you have no logical way to counter my proposal.

That which is present with with lies needs no truth to dismiss. I trust my fellow citizens, not you.

Do you get a lot of input from your fellow citizens? Do they all pull from the same sources of information? Do they ever approach that information with a critical eye, or do they blindly defend what they think they know like you do?

They just don’t trust people like you. Simple as that.

They only know their fantasy of me and the fact that I question their perception of reality. Nothing more.

They know your a state actor. They don’t need to know anything else.