Sadly, most people support this shit because they're too ****ing dumb to know any better, and they harbor the illusion that the gubbermint is the only thing keeping them "safe and warmy" so they hold onto their authoritarian blankies like a 5 year old.
-Mike
This. Absolutely, positively, 100% THIS.
Anyone have kids? Late teens to mid twenties? Most of us that do probably have instilled a little/lot of smarts/streetwise into their psyche. My daughters both know exactly what the hell is going on in the state/country/world, and have their own uncompromisable beliefs with regard to their rights as a citizen, and also with regard to their safety, self-protection, etc etc.
But when you sit among their friends/acquaintances/coworkers etc etc, and actually listen to the total moonbat BS that most of them spout from their lips, you realize they are almost total nitwits. Ask them a question about how or what THEY feel in their hearts and their heads about an issue and LITERALLY 95% will spew out something they've heard/seen on Facebook/Twitter/Mainstream Media/etc...Press them, ask them how THEY actually FEEL, inside, about any issue. And get them to try to answer you without looking something up on their Samsung Galaxy S-Brain...They have literally NO CLUE as to what's really going on in the world and 90% of them (or more) think they can "just call 911" or just "trust" .gov to take care of me, to take care of us etc.
Maybe it's from having been the generation of living in Mommy's basement that has cause these dolts to not have a clue. Or maybe they're just a product of the schools, even though most went/go to "good" schools (I know, that's probably an oxymoron)...
Whoops, wait a minute..I'm willing to bet that more than half of the young "men" and "women" Zombies whom my kids work and associate with won't even know what "oxymoron" means without friggin' Googling it (maybe even right there on their wrists, on their new "Smart"watch). And while maybe it's easy to say "Tell them to find better friends and acquaintances", before you say that just take a minute, stop and actually listen to these young sheep yap away in a group about "Like, y'know, like about some issues, Dooood!...Um, um...like..like GUNS! Ewwww!..
Actually, come to think of it, half of this young generation doesn't even talk to each other. They sit across the table or in the next room and text each other.
"OMG/WTF/Just Call 911/TTYL/See you at the bar/etc"