References to certain local events (don't wanna dox myself) where the performers acted like the meaning of those events, and the context of the events, was X, when to me, the meaning is far away from X.

This sounds dumb in the abstract, I realize; but it's the kind of interpretive gulf that you're probably familiar with for anything that approaches politics. It's just that in this case, everything was so concrete, it's like being told a false story about something that happened in front of your eyes, and seeing other people agreeing with the story like it's consensus reality.