Sometimes I truly wonder what goes on in the predditor mind to have a basic, common sense, america first 90's democrat be the second coming of Putler-Voldemort
To add, even in Redditor brains that aren't Swiss cheese, their amygdalae (one for each hemisphere, they're the part of the brain that don't just regulate fear, but things like threat assessment, emotional responses, and emotional memories) are small. This is why they think it's, like, literally okay ya'll, to do this.
Another is a combination of the oversocalization Uncle Ted talked about, and having no concept of second or third order knock-on effects. They've been primed to think of reality in terms of their heckin' Star Wars or, formerly, their Harry Potter. Not only are they Good People™ by virtue of having the right opinions, they have to be Good People™ by being Right About Everything, from the media they consoom to the food they eat to the people they associate with. Reddit being a massive echo chamber exacerbates these tendencies by default.
This also frames consequences for their retardation as either non-existent, or deserved for not being Right About Everything. The world crumbles around their pods, and they couldn't care less as long as they get their heckin' Soylent and Funko Pops and Nintendo. So when the peons get pissed off and vote for Drumphler, for the third time, they are absolutely
blind-sided. They were never the protagonists, just mooks you see the villains give plans to sometimes. They followed the instruction manual, yet their program failed to compile, because they only got the superficial aspects of how the system works.
Basically, they don't call Redditors manchildren for nothing.