I have a rather large friend group that I wouldn’t consider woke but are definitely sheep. Many of them are intelligent and work in STEM fields however don’t possess a single shred of common sense. When I’m talking to some of them it literally feels like I’m talking to an NPC, it’s seriously creepy. I blame it on the education system. They were told at an early age that you need to accept any information given by a media-approved authoritative body as fact and without questioning it. Throw that in with decades of daily late night “comedy” programming and widespread corruption in literally every facet of industry and entertainment, and I literally don’t think their brains possess the ability to ever wake up. Unfortunately I think this is typical for a large percentage of the democrat base. This is exactly why the media, big tech, etc.. go to such great lengths removing/banning stories like hunter Biden’s laptop from anywhere these NPCs May look, instead of just dismissing them as conspiracy theories like they normally do, because many of these people aren’t dumb, they just can’t ever be allowed to question what/whom they’ve been programmed to believe.