The People in the Know Nothing Party Strike Again Believing the Big Lies and Getting Fleeced by Trump

 Holy Fecal Matter

The People in the Know-Nothing Party Strike Again raising ignorance and gullibility to new heights.

According to a Reuter/Ipos Poll:

• Almost half of the Republican Party believe the January 6, 2021, Trumpist inspired Domestic Terrorist Attack on the Nations Capitol, despite all the evidence to the contrary, was the work of Anti Trump Activists
• Another sixty percent of the members of the former Party of Lincoln still think, again despite the preponderance of the evidence, that the 2020 Presidential election was stolen from Trump. 
• This same percentage also wants the twice impeached, twice KKK endorsed candidate, and twice Popular Vote Loser to run for the Presidency again in 2024. 

It is mind-boggling and nauseating that despite all the visual and documentary evidence, such a significant number of individuals still subscribe to the fringe big lies of the attempted January 6 2021 insurrection and the 2020 Presidential Election results.

Of course, it does not help when you have people like Trump and examples of enablers like Karen Fann, Kelli Ward, and Paul Gosar in Arizona feeding these untruths.

Trump Fleeces Campaign Supporters.

This continuing slide of the reactionary gullible into the Trump Zone, Fox Island, and any alt-right social media site that caters to the whims of ignorant and fringe individuals may also explain how the Trump/Pence Campaign was able to fleece/dupe campaign contributions from many of its supporters by prechecking online donation boxes so contributors would donate on a reoccurring basis to the election and post-election events.

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One of these Trump supporters who was taken advantage of, according to reporting from the Hill, was "Stacy Blatt, a 63-year-old patient in hospice care who donated $500 to the Trump campaign in September."

Unfortunately for Ms. Blatt and the others who did not realize what was done, she did not uncheck the reoccurring donation boxes.

She wound up donating $3,000 to the Trump/Pence Campaign and she died from cancer in February.

Try blaming what happened to Ms. Blatt and others that donated to Trump and saw their bank accounts shrink a left-wing conspiracy. 

The Trump/Pence Campaign had to return $122 million in campaign donations to supporters who did not intend to make reoccurring donations.

It would be interesting to find out how many people they were still able to swindle and how many millions of dollars they were able to keep.

It will also be interesting to see how many people when faced with the fact that their man tried to steal money from them will finally sever the cord and break with Mr. Trump.

It will also be depressing to see how many stay.

Moving Forward

There have always been people that have believed the big lie throughout episodes in history.

Think about the hysteria and misperceptions surrounding:

• The Salem Witch Hunts and Trials.
• The Red Scares after World Wars One and Two.
• The linkage of Iraq to the events of 9/11.

Unfortunately, the level of susceptibility to the Big Lie, even with easier access to the truth, is not declining as the power of fringe right-wing social media allows such disinformation to fester.

It is essential that the agents for facts and reality not give up the fight to convince everyone what the actual truth is.

A Democracy can not survive if a substantial number of its citizens are falling prey to the false soundbites from the Trump Zone, Fox Island, or Disinfowars.

The war for reality needs to be won if the Amerian Ideal is to endure and thrive.

The first step toward that is to defeat the big lie machine known as Trumpism and the enablers in the former Party of Lincoln and elsewhere (like confederates in Russia) that fuel it.