I suppose true. Even more so when they want to believe it. It's almost kind of cult like which reminds me of a discussion my wife and I had 30 or so years ago. She was saying that she couldn't understand how people could get caught up in a cult. I told her that to me it seemed to work this way... First, you tell them something that they know is true like "this world is a huge sphere circling the sun". Then tell them something that they WANT to believe is true like "you are the most special ones to populate this world". Finally, after they are hooked, you tell them the lie that YOU want them to believe is true like "although you are blindly following an unqualified individual selected by a small number of millionaires/billionaires you are not a cult, but Trump followers are a cult and the country is doomed if he's elected".
Going off on a tangent about cults, ran across this story this week about the cult known as Scientology:
John Stamos got kicked out of Scientology for goofing around
John Stamos is getting candid about his Church of Scientology exit.
During an interview on the "Friend in High Places" podcast with comedian Matt Friend published Sunday, the musician told the host about how he was introduced to the controversial faith.
"I was in an acting class and there was this hot girl," Stamos recalled. "She said, 'You know, we're all meeting at this address on Hollywood Boulevard, come after (class)!' I was working at my dad's restaurant at the time, and I said, 'Dad I gotta, I gotta go.' So I went, and it was the Scientology building. I was 16, 17."
But he added that he was also inspired to go to the Scientology meeting by his idol, John Travolta.
"I wanted to be John Travolta, I still do," he said of the "Grease" actor, who joined the Church of Scientology in the 1970s. But Stamos never officially joined the church after a sticky situation kept him from pursuing the faith.
Stamos recalled entering the Scientology building and being summoned to a machine called the "E-Meter," which was formed from two cans. After having a fake phone conversation pretending to be "Rocky and Bullwinkle" characters Peabody and Sherman, Stamos said, "They just kicked me out" for messing around "so much."
https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/celebrities/2024/08/30/john-stamos-scientology-kicked-me-out/75012333007/