I find it laughable that the average American can choose to 'believe' something that is simply and provenly not true. That's why there are so many flat earthers, q anon believers, climate change deniers, and all kind of supporters of provenly wrong ideas. I think this is because of the (wrong) notion that an ideology or a stance is better than facts.

Well, the Earth is not flat, there are multiple easily accessible proofs, the q anon conspiracies are demonstratably false, and the 2020 elections had multiple investigations which uncovered 0 voter fraud, and as much as you might want to believe the opposite, it's simply not true. Believing in something doesn't make it true.