They even know they’re being lied to, and still go along.
In 2008 Americans elected a black man president, and the Republicans lost their shit and went scorched earth.
The relatively new Nostr protocol is a very interesting decentralized option. It uses relay servers to provide a secure connection between two (or more) clients which maintain the data, nothing is “stored” on the relay.
This is the right idea imo. Tax wealth, not income.