It really is pretty much just this for a lot of them. Maybe the slightly more sophisticated among them will call us like “useful idiots in service of the right wing” or something along those lines. Not a lot of rigorous thought goes into this shit most of the time. It’s basically a disney understanding of politics.
It’s fiction brain. They need the real world to be full of simple good guys and bad guys, because they’ve always been a “good guy” their whole life, and if being good or bad was based on actions and nuance and not just a simplistic “We are the good guy team” they might need to consider if they aren’t actually as wonderful a person as they think they are.
It really is pretty much just this for a lot of them. Maybe the slightly more sophisticated among them will call us like “useful idiots in service of the right wing” or something along those lines. Not a lot of rigorous thought goes into this shit most of the time. It’s basically a disney understanding of politics.
It’s fiction brain. They need the real world to be full of simple good guys and bad guys, because they’ve always been a “good guy” their whole life, and if being good or bad was based on actions and nuance and not just a simplistic “We are the good guy team” they might need to consider if they aren’t actually as wonderful a person as they think they are.