As shown at left, Republicans generally believe that their country either is failing, or has already failed, in many essential ways.

This may have begun with the Big Lie, i.e., the groundless assertion that the 2020 presidential election was rigged against Trump, which ended tens of millions of voters’ confidence in the integrity of U.S. democracy after 240 years of success.  It’s kind of ironic that confidence in election integrity was considered to be stronger before the information age, when massive cheating actually could have happened undetected.

In any case, the supposed failure of the United States is now emblazoned into Republicans’ minds with concepts like:

• Biden has opened our borders, giving away our jobs and killing our kids with overdoses of fentanyl.

• The U.S. economy is in freefall decline.

• Our military is now so woke that it’s no longer capable of defending our country.

• Crime rates are on the rise, and immigrants are the cause.

Part of the human condition is that we find ways to believe what make us feel good inside.  But never before has the world’s most powerful democracy fallen prey to such a huge and calculated profusion of lies.

What Republican Politicians Tell Their Flock