I always wonder if ghouls like Blinken are dumb enough genuinely believe this, or they just think everyone else is an idiot.
If they did, they’d be rubes, not ghouls. They know it’s bullshit, but they have fully-vested interests in that bullshit, so they follow that line.
I honestly don’t know. I kind of think most politicians kind of see reality as 100% plastic. Trump is the extreme end of this to the point that whatever shit falls out of his mouth he immediately believes. Most just learn to believe whatever they need to on any given day.
I agree generally but Trump’s comments on his base believing anything he says or following him no matter what, and the contradictions between what he says publicly and what he does privately—on Christianity, for example—does make me think he mostly knows what’s a truth and a lie.
But a lot of them, Trump included, are true believers of at least some of the propaganda. No one is immune.
