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She hoped Trump would revive her farm. Now she worries his policies could bankrupt it.
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Why would you vote Trump if youre relying on federal grant money? Its not like he hid the fact tbat he was gonna slash and burn govt programs. People really need to pay the fuck attention to what theyre voting for...jesus christ.
Imagine someone with totally average intelligence. Then realize 50% of people are dumber than that. Also - they think they are smart.
And this is why trump just turfed the department of education.
It's clear to me close to half the population stopped thinking after they heard "make America great again".
Their local media didn't cover any of that. And that's the problem. It's not a case of stupidity or willful ignorance for a lot of them. They don't get their news from cable or online. Just their local reliable broadcaster. Which over the last 20 years has been bought now and replaced with propaganda from companies like Sinclair.
they don't accept sources outside their local news and social circle where they accept everything as truthful and any outsider is automatically untrustworthy. I've run into someone utterly convinced that their local schools were forcing kids to become trans against thier will, because they heard it repeated by thier idiot republican social circle. No evidense required. Instead in thier mind burden of proof is on me for saying that's ridiculous.
Even when they don't wholeheartedly believe the lies they've been goven they will pretend to for fear of their social circle response.
I mostly agree with you. I wood just like to add that this isn't a modern thing or even a modern conservative thing. It's a human nature thing throughout all of human history.
You are absolutely right though that social pressure plays a lot into it as well. Currently my girlfriend is in north carolina. She doesn't have cable. She knows that all three of the major local broadcast stations are all Sinclair propaganda as well. And doesn't get her news from them. However she isn't particularly engaged digging up News online. Outside of what her anarcho communist boyfriend sends her way. I'm working on that. Believe me I am. However she absolutely gets it from everyone within for proximity. Even if she doesn't watch herself. Human beings are very coated to generally believe what those around them believe. It's the rare ones that will go against the opinion of their local society.
Us rare ones pay a price for it too. Just about my whole family is hard right republican and religious idiots. Life with them has not been great.
Well they get “news” online from Facebook I imagine.
A lot of them don't. In fact I'd have to guess for everyone that does there's probably two or three that don't. It's an easy answer. Too easy to answer. But you'll find out that if you talk to many of them it doesn't tend to match up. Yes Facebook is still plenty of problem. And no one should use it. But there are other problems than Facebook And Fox News. As long as we focus on just those. the actual core of the problem goes unaddressed.