Just another example of the Truly Gullible
So while FOX-News - and, by extension, the GOP - were telling everyone that the Capitol rioters were Antifa and BLM, why were they simultaneously telling Dear Leader to call off the dogs and tell them to go home?
If the insurrectionists were - as FOX-News and the Republicans would have it - anti-Trumpists, why would his calling for them to leave have any influence on them whatsoever?
And more importantly, why would he later make a statement that they were "very special people and he loved them"? Was that a come-to-Jesus moment where Trump decided to turn the other cheek, and embrace his enemies just like Christ would do?
It's just another example of how gullible Trump-humpers are - willing to believe that completely contradictory things can both be true at the same time.
But it's to be expected from people who yell you're a sheep! at people who are masked-and-vaccinated, while they're swilling down animal dewormer in order to protect themselves from a hoax.
I've said it before - the smartest thing the GOP has ever done is appealing to The Stupid. They don't ask questions, they don't have the intellectual capacity to reason things out - and their only real concern is how to treat their bruised-and-bleeding knuckles due to constantly dragging them on the ground.
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It's not just the political things you're talking about. It's everyday things that involve ordinary actions of life. Which is why scams, particularly of the "I'm a Microsoft person and your computer is infected!" type are so successful.
People are not taught to question. More accurately, they are taught not to question. It starts with their childhood religion, where they're told over and over again "This is the TRUTH!! Believe nothing else!" It continues to school, where whatever the teacher says is considered to be gospel just barely behind what they learn in their church. Which wouldn't be a problem in a math class, but most other areas of study that is a problem. The "why??" that two-year olds are so rightly famous for gets totally stifled.
I have a good friend who is reasonably intelligent, but is very guilty of the sin of not asking questions. He all too often passes something along without double checking. It drives me crazy. Me, I'm skeptical of everything. Much of the time, including very often here on DU, someone will make a statement and I'll fact-check it. Perhaps half of the time here the statement is true, but the other half the poster is guilty of simply passing on what they've seen elsewhere without checking it.
We all have our comfort level. And for a huge percentage of people that comfort level involves being able to accept without question what they are told, especially if it comes from an authority figure. Alas, critical thinking is incredibly uncommon. I guess my comfort level is that of skepticism. I am a doubter. But I also like learning new things. So whenever I fact-check something I am sure is wrong, and it really is right, I have a mental high-five happen, because I've learned something new.
Another thing is that I am interested in almost everything. I read a great deal. About half of what I read is non fiction, the other half fiction. Honestly, I'm yet to come across anyone whose interests cover as wide a range. Example: I love science fiction and read a fair amount of it. What writing I've done (and I'm a slightly published s-f author) is invariably science fiction. But it's perhaps only 10 percent of what I read, simply because I'm interested in almost everything. Although I attend science fiction cons, I'm a bit of a misfit because I actually read so little in the field. Fortunately all those wonderful s-f people are very tolerant of people like me. 
