• CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    I’ve often wondered the very same thing. You see people when they get into their 60s, 70s, 80s suddenly do this weird turn into Republicanism and I wonder if something happened to their brains. I’m sure other factors may enter into it - they form a nostalgia for an America that never really was, or they are very lonely and the con cult offers a lot of love-bombing at the outset, anyway. Maybe it’s the kayfabe/WWE aspect that Faux was explicitly set up to offer and it appeals to a certain mindset…