Because they are really dumb.
I know you want me to say it is because of Trump, but that would also be stupid. 
I guess you don't understand how personality cults work.
some pieces of factual evidence that are easy to investigate:
--Trump spends about 2 months yelling about the evils of masks. They are for pussies. They are unpatriotic
--In lock-step, deplorables agree, antagonize responsible adults in public, start fights with people ostensibly trying to protect
them from their own plain stupidity.
--Covid finally starts devastating conservative hillbilly parts of the country--Trump his hog-tied by his handlers to start wearing masks. He puts one on for a photo-op.
--Deplorables start mentioning how strong he looks. How manly, how patriotic. ...a guy that was hiding in a bunker only 2 weeks before that, suddenly looks patriotic for doing the thing that they then-believed to be unpatriotic, pussy shit.
--Trump starts bitching about masks again.
--deplorables continue the anti-mask violence.
Yes, these are facts. These are happening in observable reality in this dimension that you and I and everyone else posting here, watching the news, are living in. They are unassailable truths. Humanity has understood how personality cults work for generations, and really, they went bonkers in the 20th century with the rise of fascism and communism, with the very same type of people seeking to control power through them. Trump is, undeniably, the very type of narcissistic, morally bankrupt, power-seeking despotic personality that, unmistakably, has spent their lives attacking the fragile social structures that we depend on and generally work pretty hard to maintain, only to exploit those systems and pervert them for their own gain. That is explicitly what the Trump family is, and it has never been any other way with them. The GOP has enabled it, because they ostensibly seek the same hegemonic power over this country, such that neither you nor I will ever be able to question authority--it is plainly observable and unmistakable through the crass militarization of the LEOs around us, and the daily messaging that the only authority you need trust is the feds, your officials, and whatever they choose to tell you is the truth on that day (literally, the words right out of Trump's mouth--questioning that pure fact is to be utterly ignorant, terrified, bed-wetting quisling that is just as much of a threat to this country as the shitholes trying to steal it).
These aren't opinions--these are plainly observable consequences of the very same type of human behavior that we've lived through for generations--these are the lessons that
you were supposed to learn after the order-devastating wars of the 20th century, how truly fragile what you assume is "eternal" can be wrecked, when all it takes is a handful of assholes, and an army of terrified simpletons willing to do what they want done for the promise of "undisclosed better things."
That is the unmistakable history of humanity, when evil people seek to do harm against everyone, and all they need is enough willing bedwetters to do what they command.
Yes, you are part of the problem. These are plain facts. I get that is' difficult to accept your collaboration in all of this, as stupidly as it may have been won, but you are sitting right there, accepting it. Apathy towards plain evil is just the same evil as those perpetrating it against you.
Greenman explained earlier that Democracy is hard; despotism is easy. No truer words spoken to describe the current reality we live in. ...the only issue, here, of course, is the warped perspective within which the despots and quislings believe themselves to be.
Unmistakably, history will not judge you and those like you kindly. A future version of yourself would have absolutely hated this current version of yourself, to lazily, stupidly sit by and pretend you weren't part of the plain problem.
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