Barbequepie

When you have a bunch of free thinkers who think whatever they're told.
- I agree, they suck, but one thing they aren't wrong about and makes this all so difficult is that coalescing around one person allows you to consolidate power.
  I wouldn't say it is virtuous or we should emulate it but we have yet to see anyone who can challenge the GOP.
- Free of thinking!

I say this a lot, but all humans are heavily biased towards believing their in-group. For some people that's basically all that matters. I feel like authoritarians, right wing authoritarians, are especially prone to this. Facts and figures don't matter. It's the emotional core of "fit in with the group" and "outsiders BAD" that's driving it, and all the justifications come afterwards.
I don't want to say anything like they're like animals or subhuman, because this behavior is extremely human. We all do it to some extent. It's just for some people it's so dominant, and their in-group is so dangerously stupid, it's a real problem for all of us.
- I dunno. I like to think I'm not wired differently but maybe I am. I walk away from bullshit, any bullshit, and am angry about it. I don't care if it's my dad, teacher, a cop, the judge, or the president. I get upset when I'm lied to. I get frustrated when people are being assholes. The amount of trump I could stand was hearing my 9th grade, sex offender, business teacher trash talk him years before he ran for office.
  
  Me too dude, me too.
  
  Some people are more or less followers, but we all have it to some degree. You're more likely to believe a trusted source than someone you've never met before. If your best bud tells you a game is good, you likely give it more credit than some random guy on the street, or a guy wearing the t-shirt for a sports team you hate.
  edit: I forgot i usually link this comic https://theoatmeal.com/comics/believe
  it's a very similar idea

Haha I love it when pizzacake does a political comic, fuck those haters lol