Credulousness / Gullibility
Yes, stupidity is required here, but keep in mind that the MAGA crowd will believe anything, regardless of how absurd, if it comes out of Donald Trump’s mouth. That’s more than mere stupidity.
Someone asked me recently if I thought it was possible that Greenland holds a legitimate national security purpose for the United States (as Trump claims). I responded that I don’t know, because I’m not privy to our military secrets, but I’m 100% confident that Denmark will allow us to do anything we want on Greenland if it will help protect the world against foreign aggression.
My wife believes that the United States is headed towards the Orwellian dystopia “1984,” based on the systematic distortion of truth we see all around us. If a U.S. president can convince his followers that Ukraine started the war with Russia by attacking first, I suppose she has a point.
We shouldn’t expect people with hundreds of billions of dollars to become heroes, but we shouldn’t allow them to become terrorists, either.
I’m sure that millions of people have had the thought offered at left.
As at least 99% of us know, school students can read the Bible if they so choose.
Like so many of his college friends in the early 1940s, my father (temporarily) dropped out to fight in WW2. Dad happened to become a B17 (bomber) pilot, running missions out of London, destroying Nazi oil refineries. Also like his friends, he was thrilled to come home when the war was over in 1945.
It’s good to know that there exists a handful of congressional Republicans who openly and fiercely oppose Donald Trump.
Are there people who believe Elon Musk’s claims that millions of dead American are receiving Social Security checks? Of course.
I’m sure there are Americans, albeit a minority, who believe that Elon Musk’s activities in the U.S. federal government are selfless, and aimed at making our country a safer, healthier, and overall better place for the common person to live in.
A reader notes: Here is a 10 MB hard disk from the 70’s that I was told cost $40k. Sitting on it is the 1 terabyte hard drive from my laptop. 
