People believe the propaganda that China is doing something threatening, though I don't get what that would be.
They lived thru the cold war so they think nothing will happen and there's no reason to worry (because apparently the reason nothing happened during the cold war was that those who were against nuclear holocaust did nothing instead of political agitation and a lot more).
They say something like "eh they're just doing it to get reelected, besides all politicians are bad"
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