I thought I understood cognitive dissonance. But people's willingness to dismiss peer review scientists and physicians with decades of non-political focus on their field in favor of some yahoo talking head is just mind boggling to me. It seems there is no one who could wake people up. It's always kill the messenger. But JFK Jr would be a game changer. Can you imagine? I really want it to be true. Doesn't mean it is. But I REALLY want it to be true.
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I'm on your side in thinking that this is going too slowly, but if you think about how many more people voted for Trump in 2020 vs. 2016 (even without taking the fraud into account), doesn't that show that people are waking up by the day? It seems to be going at a crawl, but it should be getting faster each day, like a snowball that is gaining mass and momentum, as more and more people are awake and waking up others.
They still trust local governments. They must be shown how close that corruption hits to home.