Facts Need Not Apply

The question has been asked on a number of platforms by a number of people, “How can anyone still support Trump?”

The answer is very complicated but to illustrate just how fanatic a true believer can become, Let’s take a look at the most extreme of extreme focuses. By looking at the most extreme situation which you can imagine, you can carry back the lesson which is clearly demonstrated there and apply it to the not so extreme situation in which you find yourself.
Let’s go to April 20, 1945. The German army is shattered. The war is largely being fought by sick old men and little boys. In less than two weeks Hitler will kill himself in despair. Yet, on his birthday it was possible for true believers to be excited and inspired by Goebbels speech. Here are some excerpts. As you read them, ask yourself again the question, how can anyone look at reality and still believe in…name your corrupt leader.

> ...Our enemies claim that the Führer’s soldiers marched as conquerors through the lands of Europe — but wherever they came, they brought prosperity and happiness, peace, order, reliable conditions, a plenitude of work, and therefore a decent life.

...The perverse coalition between plutocracy and Bolshevism is collapsing!

...the German people bore him. It chose him, it by free election made him Führer. It knows his works of peace and now wants to bear and fight the war that was forced upon him until its successful end.

...But if we achieve our goals, the project of social construction begun in Germany in 1933 and was rudely interrupted in 1939 will be taken up again with renewed strength.

...(Hitler) will go his way to the end, and there awaits not the end of his people, but rather a new and happy beginning to an era in which Germandom will flourish as never before.

...Germany is still the land of loyalty. It will celebrate its greatest triumphs in the midst of danger. <

Reality is meaningless to true believers. That’s how.