1.
People who use “motivated reasoning” to cling to totally untenable position.
2.
People who are clearly in the “Dunning-Kruger” zone being given credence for being experts or at minimum, being allowed to “pontificate” as experts on subjects of which they have no knowledge.
2a. The people who listen to, agree with and propagate the messages o the people in #2.
3.
People who knowingly vote against their own best interest.
4.
People who refuse to do their own research and will follow authoritarian-seeming people just because.
5.
People who are psychologically predisposed to operate from fear at all times.
6.
The corollary to #5—People who fear anything/anyone that is “different” or represent “new”.
7. People of any faith-path who read the Holy Writ of their faith-path literally rather than as metaphor.