It is strongly ingrained in the human psyche that the opinion of the majority is correct. People quickly adapt their political views to the opinion of the majority. People are very easily manipulated in this matter. On social networks, we see a 95% prevalence of opinions supporting Kremlin propaganda. There is a great fear in the human psyche of being in the minority, of being part of a minority. It's like going one against all. It is more comfortable to change one's opinion and adapt it to the opinion of the majority.
A typical feature of pro-Kremlin trolls is aggression. One does not have the desire or strength to stand up to an aggressive crowd. It's like going one against all.
The human psyche has a very strong, ingrained resistance and fear of being part of a clear minority opinion.
The aggressiveness of Slovak trolls is greater the more certain they are that they are on the side of the majority. The trolls do not feel threatened by the media, because the media do not comment on the topic of Russia or the topic of Kremlin propaganda at all. On the contrary, they often join the side of Kremlin propaganda, such as the daily Pravda or the frequent appearances of Eduard Chmelár on TA3 television.
One Slovak politician is outdoing the other in who can suck up to Putin more. They are Andrej Danko , Robert Fico, Ľuboš Blaha , Prime Minister Peter Pellegrini , and Marián Kotleba. In the case of Blaha and Danko, we can have serious concerns about their mental health. In the case of Fico and Pellegrini, simply stating that we disagree with sanctions on Russia is a huge slap in the face to the entire Ukrainian nation and is a manifestation of belief in Kremlin propaganda that the Russians have nothing to do with the military unrest in Ukraine. This bad political situation reinforces the trolls' awareness that they are part of the majority. Social networks create an atmosphere where not believing Kremlin propaganda means belonging to some 5% of marginal, insignificant "fools." However, trolls are very determined to aggressively attack even these 5% of insignificant fools.
Homophobia
Propaganda against sexual minorities will always have the upper hand. From the perspective of human psychology, hating a minority is always so easy. Because they are simply a minority. Kremlin propaganda will always fuel hatred in people against anyone it can.Trolls are actually cowards.
A person who falls for Kremlin propaganda is never mentally balanced. It can only be a personally weak and mentally injured person. Trolls are big aggressive fighters, but in reality , they are big cowards. As soon as they realize that they are not in the majority, that they are not in the majority, that they are not part of such a strong gang, then suddenly their heroism will be over and they will stop trolling. As soon as the majority of the media started actively fighting against disinformation (which they are not doing yet), the cowardly trolls would be terrified and the stupid herd would scatter in all directions.I can give an interesting example that this really works. Shortly after Kotleba got into parliament, he was at the peak of his popularity, and even trolls were able to fight for him very aggressively, similar to Kremlin propaganda. After a few months, when the media did not remain indifferent and began to actively oppose Kotleba, the environment of discussions and social networks suddenly changed radically. Trolls no longer fight for Kotleba so aggressively, nor is there a prevalence of debaters who would recognize him. The media also successfully managed to change public opinion.
The psychological effect of the majority in religion. Religious fanaticism.
I know many Christians who are more or less fanatical about religion. I realize how easily a person can be manipulated by the environment in which they live. The extent to which a person is fanatical about religion is directly dependent on the environment in which they live.Religious fanatics have a strong tendency to surround themselves with people and form friendships only with people who are as religiously fanatical as they are. On the contrary, they try to avoid people who are not religiously inclined in every possible way.
Religious people are cowards who are afraid of losing their faith if they do not isolate themselves sufficiently and close themselves off from normal non-religious society.
( Just as a side note, I even know of a Christian company where the boss is a religious fanatic and, if possible, tries to employ as many strongly religiously oriented people as possible. In fact, every morning, the Christian employees pray the rosary together. Fortunately, this is not forced upon the non-religious employees. And I'm not surprised why his company is so unsuccessful. I sincerely feel sorry for the employees who are not religiously oriented, because they then feel like second-class citizens in the company, like something less compared to the group of Christians who think they are something more in the company) .
But now I'm back to the main topic. The most fanatical people I know are those who have either been unemployed for a long time, but during their unemployment they have been in intense friendly contact with religiously-minded people. If these people were employed, they had jobs where they worked with a minimum of colleagues, they were in contact with a minimum of people, such as caring for one sick person.
On the contrary, Christians who have not been unemployed for a long time and have had jobs where they were in intense contact with a large number of colleagues who were not religiously inclined are much less fanatical about religion.
I also know an interesting example of a person who had a job where he was in contact with many non-religious people. As soon as this person retired, he was surrounded exclusively by religious friends. This person's environment changed a lot. He became very religiously fanatical, which he had not been before. Since this person retired, I see how his energy is rapidly declining, and it's impossible to have a normal conversation with him, which was possible before.
And now comes the conclusion and the point of this part: It's all about the effect of the majority or the minority. When a religious fanatic isolates himself from normal society and creates an environment of friends and acquaintances who are the same religious fanatics, in the subjective perception of the religious person, religious fanaticism is the majority view of the world. It doesn't even occur to the religious fanatic to wonder if he himself is somehow strange. On the contrary, this person tends to look at non-religious people as if they are strange, as if they are outside the norm and normality. Religious fanatics are cowards who, if they had a different job where they would be more in contact with people, would simply not be such fanatics. Being a religious fanatic in a primitive Christian tribe that isolates itself from the rest of society is not a great art or heroism. It is a manifestation of cowardice.
There is also a very effective therapy against religious fanaticism. Simply by having the person spend most of their time among non-religious people and not being able to be among religious people.