This question and answer will disappoint many, and enrage others, but it is a very insightful and astute question because this is very much the case that both groups of individuals, trading love for hatred, were manipulated in extreme ways to create states of willful acceptance of outcomes without critical inspection and raising demands for improvement on the one hand, and then a complete negation of having any merit, or value, or minimal levels of achievement and accomplishment on the other hand, when, in fact, some solid gains were made and effective leadership demonstrated. We are not picking political favorites here but only talking about relatively modest short-term situations and the response of the group of individuals under discussion here in those particular settings.
When programmed to support a political figure, people can be made to blindly accept everything they do and dismiss any seeming negatives without concern simply by becoming complacent. And then when there is a desire to have them reject a political figure, to create tension, and potential turmoil, and discord, they can be manipulated to find fault with everything and even to find faults for which there is little or no actual evidence at hand and simply believe the defects exist and make the person worthy of condemnation without any critical self-awareness of the inconsistencies in logic, or rather non-logic, at work in their own thinking. These are hallmarks of mind control manipulation which can create blind spots a mile wide and turn things upside down, and people will become quite non-rational in their thinking, and this can have many profound consequences for negative outcomes which, after all, is the desired goal here.
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