I truly believe that Leftism is a secular cult and people like my dear mother literally glitch out with cognitive dissonance and willful ignorance when confronted with how corrupt the people they vote for truly are.
They have never learned critical thinking.
They are conditioned to accept what is spoon fed to them from the MSM and never question anything they say.
“... there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grams a week. And only yesterday […] it had been announced that the ration was to be reduced to twenty grams a week. Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-four hours? Yes, they swallowed it. [...] The eyeless creature at the other table swallowed it fanatically, passionately, with a furious desire to track down, denounce, and vaporize anyone who should suggest that last week the ration had been thirty grams.”
― Orwell George, 1984