Another way to think about it is that your consciousness is like an operating system of a computer. It handles a lot of things, most things the user would be aware of, but there's a lot more computation going on than just in the operating system.

For instance, there is a certain kind of blindness where the eyes are functional, but the consciousness sees black. When told to look at pictures of people, subjects were able to guess how trustworthy someone appeared to like 70% accuracy, iirc, implying that some of the brain was still able to process the image, even if the conscious mind didn't know why.

And until republicans started scraping for votes by turning the uneducated into a cult using meme-worthy propaganda.

Drag queens, hating responsibilities, and prejudice against anything a rep thinks is 'woke'. It'd be comical if it wasn't so effective.

And before it was that, it was Trump telling everyone a bunch of lies they wanted to hear, all while using the presidency to advertise his buddy's canned beans in the Oval Office.

Other countries didn't make us crazy, the crazies just didn't know who to vote for before.