It boils down to knowing a secret that is not apparent to other people. K&R

that some of these people find that this is the easiest way to be the hero. They could choose to volunteer, or to be a mentor, but that would take too long and require too much of a commitment. This way, they get to keep their time and effort and still be someone special.

Perhaps they are lazy, or impatient, but by following Trump they can get attention by re-posting ready-made crap on Facebook or Twitter.

You can go help out at a soup kitchen or volunteer to help with a charity but, doing that, you'll get smirks from your idiot cohorts. Ah, but join with them to argue and complain about the dark forces, and your membership in the macho-moron gang is guaranteed, brandish a rifle, and call your friends to arms "if it comes down to that, y'know?" -- and your membership is complete.

will repeat itself all over again......

real education, is offered to all and civics is begun at an early point in that education.

I would hope that we wouldn't fall for that.

Most liberals have some particle of anarchist, so I suppose that's why our side can't stay unified. We tend to unravel our organizations.

To the republican(fascist) mind. The side that makes the rules is the right side to many minds.

I do not believe that 50% are Republicans. Trump supporters, if one can believe some studies, constitute 90% of Republican voters, which would make Republicans about 45% of the electorate, which would conform with most studies I have read in recent years. There is a reason Republicans fight tooth and nail to disenfranchise Democratic voters. That is the action of a party who knows that it is in the minority, and needs cheating to elect Representatives, Governors, State Legislators and Senators in numbers that are superior and disproportionate to their real support.

He stated that the GOP always did better with a lower turnout as the more folks who voted the less likely they were to win. So no matter the percentages which will vary by region it is certain that the are a minority party depending upon a lack of enthusiasm by Democratic voters to win.

The GOP got us to where we are today: a country in serious decline and in imminent danger of bankruptcy, both moral and financial coal. Anyone who votes for any Republican is responsible for the mess we're in. I say this living in Maryland, a state with a good governor who happens to be a Republican. I will never vote for him, however, unless he changes his party affiliation because the GOP's name has been forever tainted by, and will forever be associated with, Trump's and McConnell's treason.

In the field of psychology, the Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which people with low ability at a task overestimate their ability. It is related to the cognitive bias of illusory superiority and comes from the inability of people to recognize their lack of ability. Without the self-awareness of metacognition, people cannot objectively evaluate their competence or incompetence.[1]
As described by social psychologists David Dunning and Justin Kruger, the bias results from an internal illusion in people of low ability and from an external misperception in people of high ability; that is, "the miscalibration of the incompetent stems from an error about the self, whereas the miscalibration of the highly competent stems from an error about others."[1]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning–Kruger_effect

But you also have the wealthy who don't give a damn what else he does as long as he protects and grows their wealth.

help him think he is the smartest person in the room.

They've spent their entire lives bouncing around from one idiotic herd to the next new one, and suddenly there's this big herd they can join and finally belong someplace where lots and lots of other people are participating and the freaking POTUS is praising and supporting you!

It's like Nirvana for lemmings.