They’ll never understand that. They are accustomed to authoritarian ideas, and in those systems, you simply follow your leaders. You give your loyalty, and once given, your honor dictates it remains there. You know, old tradition.

This is why they love to accuse science of being another kind of religion, instead of a process or method. That authoritarian idea of loyalty is creeping in.

So, they can’t understand a world where we don’t just trust him because he carries the correct label and looks presentable. Remember, when their authority tells them to take Ivermectin or something, they just go fucking do it. So, they think we’re the same, and when someone says “vote Kennedy” we just will.

Remember, they also think we’re all stupid. Like, really, really stupid. They do not see us as peers, they see us an inferiors who do not understand how “hard” the world is “supposed to be”.

Naturally, this is kinda amusing when its not sad and irritating.

edit: Just thought of another good example. When covid was raging, if you wore a mask regularly, why did you? Was it just because you were told to, and you didn’t think about it further? Nothing wrong with that of course, not everyone has time to research everything and sometimes you do just have to trust your doctor.

But there’s a second possibility. Did you maybe wear a mask because you understood how diseases get transmitted through the air and you figured, for yourself, that yeah, that might be a good idea?

Authoritarians do not acknowledge the existence, or even the right to exist, of that second possibility. It’s literally disallowed by authoritarianism itself, because it proposes the possibility of facts beyond the control of any authorities. In their world, should anything at all be beyond the control of the highest of authorities? No. No it should not, because the highest of all authorities is actually an omnipotent deity that is fully responsible for everything that exists.