Specific Type of Intelligence

Why do so many people fall for governments' scams? The Iraq War after 9/11 is a great example. The official story of who attacked the United States didn't even tangentially include Iraq, and even before the war was started the people who pushed the scare propaganda about Iraq WMD and other pretexts for the war had been discredited. Regardless, the United States lurched into another stupid war in the middle east for the Empire parasite. Sure, many people opposed the war and fruitlessly protested it, but many people thought it was justified and made sense. They heard the general narrative but could not hear the criticism.

Covid is a much larger scam that's more invasive. Rather than invade a random middle eastern country, it was an invasion of bureaucrats and apparatchiks right here at home. It ruined some people's lives completely by destroying small businesses, for example.

There was a maniacal push out of the gate for vaccinations and vaccine passports. Obviously those schemes were waiting in the wings ready to go. A very large portion of the population was seemingly hypnotized by the covid informercial fear porn every day and didn't notice the scammy aspects of it.

A pretty good chunk of the population wasn't hypnotized, though. I think it's at least 10% of the population, but it might be much higher. A large number of people, maybe even more than 50% realize the vaccines are probably bad for them.

What's the difference between these two groups? I think there's quite a few seemingly educated people who really bought the covid hoax hook line and sinker. There's quite a few people who are similarly educated, or are even experts in the fields associated with the hoax who don't buy it at all.

It's a really good question what the difference is. It seems like a very large proportion of "white liberal" types buy the story entirely without question. I think that type of person tends to have verbal intelligence, but not much else. That said, it's pretty easy to find people who are very intelligent and have both high math and verbal skills who believe one thing or the other.

I think it really boils down to how people interpret the malfeasance of the government and other establishment institutions like the media. If they think, in general, the government is bad they're unlikely to believe the covid story. That's probably the key factor.