Hard question. I used to be online more as I felt you could share information, and books especially, that would help all of us know a bit more. But people are locked in their mental rooms and don't want to come out for fear what the room provides may be not be the real world. Most live in bubbles that reflect back what they want to see. You see that on this site as nonsense get repeated and repeated and.... A kind of circle jerk in which the enemy is clear, usually a leftist or BLM or democrat or.... On most so called conservative sites I am quickly banned, which kinda makes me laugh as I am conservative. But conservative in America today has changed and is autocratic etc etc etc.
Back to your query - I find it interesting and still challenging reading what many Americans have become in these last fifty years or so. Makes one sad but interesting too how certain media sources and dark money can control the minds of so many.
For the reader this book is superb as covers lots of how and why we got here. It is much broader than its title. Also a book on thought control.
'The Cult of Trump: A Leading Cult Expert Explains How the President Uses Mind Control' Steven Hassan
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/...-cult-of-trump
"Human beings have been trying to change each others' minds since they first discovered they had them." Kathleen Taylor
'Brainwashing: The Science of Thought Control' Kathleen Taylor
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/sh...6.Brainwashing
"People who work with victims of cults, for example, often observe that the new beliefs are associated with extremely emotional states.
Challenging such a belief rationally is difficult if not impossible. The victim not only perceives any such challenge as hostile but refuses to engage in rational debate..."