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I think part of it is a misallocation of trust problem. They're too trusting of certain pillars of society, which they assume have good intentions since they've stood firm throughout their lives. The media, their chosen political party, law enforcement, the education system, health care. These are all seen as foundational, truthworth institutions, regardless of the fact that they almost never have your best interest at heart. They've so effectively twisted reality in the mind of the boomer that he'll perceive sinister motives as universal goods.

Another part of the problem is a sacret cow issue. They're willing to get drawn into the more vague aspects of conspiracy theories, getting more and more convinced by a mounting body of evidence that something weird is going on, but they often hit a wall in their programming when the evidence starts pointing to certain protected groups as the root of the problem. They've been so effectively propagandized into seeing certain groups as victims, it's too jarring to have the script flipped by reality.

A conspiricy of jews are trying to wipe out my kind? No, that can't be. That was the bad man's plan to wipe THEM out. Surely, you're just an anti-semite. The mountains of evidence must be wrong, bigot.

Yeah, okay boomer.

The government and establishment were incredibly stable and were able to maintain high trust rep for their entire lives. Literally everything is going to shit in the last 5 or 10% of their lifespan and it turns out much of their stability and prosperity was built on a lie. They had no idea. They had no reason to have any idea that they were being manipulated to participate and their own nation’s destruction. Things were good.

Day of the pillow nears for them and they just cant handle the the new reality. They are mentally inflexible, as we all will be at 75. Its really stupid to expect miracles.

Ive redpilled my elder and he more or less accepts alot of what we discuss around here, but he sometimes backslides, and is in constant fear of “going to far”, as in being an extremist. Im like, “bitch, they ruined your country, your grandkids will be slaves, you’ll be dead in 5 years, you cant go too far”— but he thinks if the jews hear us talking over the phone about them, they’ll do something like put him on a no fly list. Its crazy.

They grew up in an era where the news was trusted, along with politicians.

My brother grew up watching the X Files. He loved the Lone Gunmen spinoff with the episode about crashing planes into the twin towers to start a war for profit that came out just before 9/11. He still thinks 9/11 was muh terrorism.

Some people are willfully ignorant. Some are dumb. Some are brainwashed.