[amalcon]

The "members of the other party are literally evil and uniformly commit (non-political) crimes against humanity" thing is somewhat overstated. There are a disturbing number of people who think that, but it's far enough from the norm that it's not hard to find a family gathering with nobody who thinks that.

Not that our politics aren't super weird and unusually contentious. They are, often even relative to the same people twenty years ago. It's just that the particular archetype you're citing here is still pretty unusual in the scheme of things.

[DoctorOW]

Anecdata, everyone I've spoken to who is loyal to The Party, believes at least one mistruth. Ranging anywhere from "the gays are coming for you" to "the Jews control the media" the fact that there are a selection of personal boogeymen instead of a single centralized one is almost irrelevant to the overall point.

[hannofcart]

> Some 23% of Republicans, and 15% of all Americans, say they agree with the baseless QAnon allegation that “the government, media and financial worlds in the U.S. are controlled by a group of Satan-worshipping pedophiles who run a global child sex-trafficking operation.”

Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/tommybeer/2021/05/27/nearly-30-...

[MarkPNeyer]

Jeffrey Epstein didn’t kill himself.

Yeah, maybe the Satan worshipping thing is off the rocker. But a known pedophile ran a pedophole tape party island that lots of wealthy powerful men were at, somehow none of them got charged and the guy died in jail with video cameras blanked out.

Are they really ~crazy~ for thinking that maybe something is up there? Or are they just going overboard when diagnosing a real problem, like the half of democrats who supported COVID internment camps?

Source: https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/par...