RIGHT. OK, I may get it now. If the idea is that’s how people get into MAHA and MAGA—but perhaps it’s also not having a firm footing in the framework that lets you understand what’s going on in the first place. They can’t draw on existing science, medicine, economics, or other bodies of knowledge.
It's like they cultivate a habit of rejecting experts and then who's left to turn to?
Yes. That’s what happens. I HAVE seen how they do that. As a child, I remember a friend’s father ridiculing someone for being ‘open-minded’ as their mind would fall out of their head. For years, I puzzled over what he could mean then realized—oh, it’s THAT. People without a firm basis for belief.