By Frances Bryce, October 29, 2020 — Now we are again in the last days of deciding who will lead the country for the next four years. Will we continue with our present president or elect a new one? In the news, there are many charges and counter-charges whenever the TV is on. Not to mention all the campaign ads.
I decided to further limit my TV viewing by reading magazines, and Time Magazine which I get weekly was one of those. Also, some non-political entertainment sources. In one of the articles that caught my eye, one of the Time reporters who visited the suburbs and outer rural areas in Milwaukee, Pennsylvania, and outside Ohio too mentioned a few of those. He was interested in hearing how people with ordinary voices determined the coming November 3 election.
As I read the outcome of the people he interviewed, [I saw that] many voters were not fazed by the reports of the President saying that soldiers were losers and suckers, the death toll of COVID-19, and admission to downplaying the virus when Woodward taped him. And so, he asked about these things and no one was talking about the headline and the people often decided that it was not true, or they did not care.
Most of the Trump voters interviewed had reasons for supporting him and they were logical. One said he had lowered their taxes, appointed anti-abortion judges and the stock market had soared. So, he was logical in his goals because the President was certainly doing the things that were important to him. Some supporters, according to the writer, explained reasons that were so devoid from anything that he had ever experienced, and the reason was divorced from reality. He called this [phenomenon] “un-logic,” which is not ignorance or stupidity but distorted by suspicion and misinformation geared by fiction rather than established facts because they only listen to those things that they really believe.
He found that un-logic belief from QAnon that the COVID virus is a hoax and was perpetuated by the elites from Hollywood. Anybody else who challenged this they called “lying reporters,” so did not listen to them. So, the un-logic of the other side often said that the President was faking, and they didn’t believe him, [was only the flu. Such belief that Hollywood’s elites could traffic and rape children, who were pedophiles, also that they had built tunnels under the U.S. to traffic in children and to drink their blood.
When he asked two women two days after the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg for their thoughts about the Judge they said, “I think that they were lying, we know that she died last year.” Their favorite news network was OANN and they said, “That station just gave you the facts.”
I understand why the term un-logic was used to explain these views by many of the voters he interviewed. And that was the thing that was so interesting to me that they didn’t believe anything that the leading stations reported, and they refused to listen to them. So, that was their reason for their feelings and nothing was going to change how they felt.
