That's OK. I understand the system of not believing something. But Trump world is full of things that those people do believe, and I'm trying to understand why people who claim to believe so little actually believe so much, what they base their belief on, and why they think skepticism is their brand. It's like a bunch of people who'd walk around wearing five layers of clothes and identifying as nudists.
For example, there are thousands of people in that world who are self-proclaimed skeptics, yet believe predictions made by an anonymous person, whose only reputation is of having a perfect score of total misses. So if those people see doubting those who lie to them as central to their identity, why do they make a point of believing someone who so very clearly has done nothing other than lie to them? It's not even a matter of distrusting faceless institutions and trusting only acquaintances, because they're all too happy to trust people they don't even know exist.
Trump has been true to his word, the important things he promised in the matters of policy, the important things he’s done for the economy, diplomatic relations between Israel and Arab countries, cancelling critical race theory indoctrination in government, standing up for police being scapegoated by raging mobs.
His actions speak louder than words. He closed the border with China when everyone was accusing him of xenophobia, he did it just in time to flatten the curve. He helped millions of people with stimulus package, saved countless businesses and jobs via fed corporate bonds, I can go on and on. These are not opinions but facts.
You see it’s not about what or whom you believe but what you and them actually do.
The left accuse the president of being racist without any basis, by misinterpreting or intentionally misrepresenting his sayings. Building their whole campaign around massive 'racism' conspiracy. Many people vote Trump just because they are tired of this bullshit.
That whole BLM summer of protests? Gone, no longer in fashion. Dems don’t really care about black lives, they cynically exploit race politics to grab power. It worked marvels for them in these elections.
I'm not talking about any of that. Why people voted for Trump is a related discussion, but not the same. Clearly, Pizzagate or Q or Birthers or 9/11 Truthers or Ukranian conspiracists did not deliver on their word, so I'm wondering about the dissonance in the self-identification as skeptics by people who are clearly very credulous, as well as by their epistemology, the process by which they come to know what is "true."
For example, there are thousands of people in that world who are self-proclaimed skeptics, yet believe predictions made by an anonymous person, whose only reputation is of having a perfect score of total misses. So if those people see doubting those who lie to them as central to their identity, why do they make a point of believing someone who so very clearly has done nothing other than lie to them? It's not even a matter of distrusting faceless institutions and trusting only acquaintances, because they're all too happy to trust people they don't even know exist.