Well of course the NPC's fall for it. I've been testing the NPC's I know. If a concept takes longer than 5 seconds to explain you can see their eyes glass over and their comprehension stop.

They have the literal brains of goldfish.

Which makes me question the validity of a democracy when the majority of people can be easily fooded by calling the "big stealing all the money bill" the end "world hunger bill" and get away with it.

Which is why my advice is to prep. The USA has become too stupid to survive. The USA WILL FAIL, and its only a matter of when.

And since they are too stupid to understand 2 sentences back to back, when the USA and all the supply networks support them, they are all doing to die of starvation. And it will take a LOT less time than you think, after all only 2 weeks of no food and most humans are too weak to do more than stagger around. These people are too stupid to cook a potato, many of them are so insane they will off themselves without a steady supply of SSRI's. So when it breaks down, they won't last even 2 months.

So sure, prepping for 6 years is very hard. Prepping to make it through a couple months is easy.