Years of being indoctrinated by grifters like Rush Limbaugh and Fox News is how, it really is that simple. I spent decades watching those degenerates change close family members from rational, compassionate people into knuckles-dragging retards. Hell, look at how successful the social media campaigns over the past decade have been with this, it’s just the next logical step in the grift. These people will take confirmation bias over objective truth any day of the week.
I actually won a $50 bet with one of the aforementioned family members a few months ago because they couldn’t even fathom that Fox News had lost over 3/4 of a billion dollars in the Dominion lawsuit, because “they would never just lie on air like that, I would have heard about it!” Next time I’m bumping it up to a grand, these people are the biggest suckers on earth.