Nationally, a study by Yale researchers determined that “the excess [COVID] death rate among Republican voters was 43% higher than the excess death rate among Democratic voters.”

They are literally being deceived to death.

  • TechyDad@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    They love thinking that they’re superior to other people. They feel this way by “knowing the truth” that the rest of us don’t accept because we stick with what “liberal science spoon feeds us.”

    It’s the same situation as a moon landing conspiracy theorist. They feel superior because they can “see through the deception of the moon landing” while the rest of us just accept what every scientist even remotely linked with the moon landing says. Sure, their conspiracies are easily debunked, but they just don’t accept any debunking as valid and instead continue on.

    They feel like their lives are meaningless so they find meaning in being part of the “select few that can see past the conspirators’ lies.”