Decent post. Lets face it, anyone who believes any of the propaganda their ideological representatives are pumping out or that their shit doesnt stink is naive.
So on that basis the best metrics are things like broad consensus, or general behaviour. Like, you probably can't trust many real estate agents, but if you met a real estate agent that everyone hated because they gave all other real estate agents a bad name, I dont think the logical conclusion is that they are more trsutworthy, if anything it is that they make an already difficult job even harder. Disruption is a good thing if it leads to better outcomes, which was why people embraced trump at the start, but progressively more and more people have been realizing that his disruptions have only benefited his inner circles. Some people have become so brainwashed by their propaganda sources that they refuse to see it. Its like Scientology, when you are in you are IN, but when you are out you get discredited to prevent other believers from following suit.
There should be red flags around the fact that the worlds wealthiest autistic person has suddenly backflipped on trump and is jumping for joy as a show of support for him, calling him a saviour. To a neutral it is plainly obvious what his agenda is, but to the brainwashed it is as if he is speaking on behalf of the common man. Lol. Absurd that they cant see through it.
The world has turned into the Truman show. People pay thousands of dollars for water ionisation machines to save them from cancer and then get cancer and refuse to go on chemo because someone who is trying to sell them another water machine insists it is bad for them on tiktok.
It's all a show.
Judge a man on how they treat people around them.
Is he polite? Is he generous? Does he put others around him above himself? Does he show respect?
Do people who break from his circle continue to speak highly of him? Does he continue to show loyalty to those who broke away?
It's not hard to work out what's going on. It's a cult.
