Would be more accurate with them throwing a rope to tie the guy with them.

The brainwashing has gotten so deep that people are quite literally denying the things they see with their own eyes, and instead believing the opposite as it's told by the mainstream media. You could say "the sky is blue" and you'd get idiots saying stuff like "source?", or "where's your peer reviewed double blind study?", or "that's a white supremacist narrative", or any of the stuff in the OP.