It’s not just that. Those people are also really really stupid. They don’t have the ability to connect any dots. They can hear the dumbest shit straight from Trump’s mouth and they don’t realize he’s an idiot. Where they get the news from is a secondary issue. If you forced them to watch CNN all day they would simply not understand any of it. But yes, they can understand diesel getting expensive the same way a dog can understand a stick. When prices fall they will still not understand why it happened and will go back to voting for racists and homophobes.
Actually, they’ve done studies where they’ve taken people off Fox News, and had them watch other news, and their political views soften very quickly when exposed to stories they don’t hear in the Conservative Propaganda Machine.
I have a business acquaintance who is still an unapologetic MAGA, and he isn’t aware of 75% of the crazy shit that’s these people do, and when I tell him, he thinks it’s all fake, because Trump and MAGA wouldn’t do anything bad. He has Fox News playing next to his desk all day long, every day. It’s his sole source of news.
But if I assume people are stupid, I can just feel angry and superior about it. If it’s a solvable problem like education and news reform then I have to do work and also recognize that some of what created my views is the luck of my environment.
It’s not just that. Those people are also really really stupid. They don’t have the ability to connect any dots. They can hear the dumbest shit straight from Trump’s mouth and they don’t realize he’s an idiot. Where they get the news from is a secondary issue. If you forced them to watch CNN all day they would simply not understand any of it. But yes, they can understand diesel getting expensive the same way a dog can understand a stick. When prices fall they will still not understand why it happened and will go back to voting for racists and homophobes.
Actually, they’ve done studies where they’ve taken people off Fox News, and had them watch other news, and their political views soften very quickly when exposed to stories they don’t hear in the Conservative Propaganda Machine.
I have a business acquaintance who is still an unapologetic MAGA, and he isn’t aware of 75% of the crazy shit that’s these people do, and when I tell him, he thinks it’s all fake, because Trump and MAGA wouldn’t do anything bad. He has Fox News playing next to his desk all day long, every day. It’s his sole source of news.
yes, that being his sole source of news makes him stupid
But if I assume people are stupid, I can just feel angry and superior about it. If it’s a solvable problem like education and news reform then I have to do work and also recognize that some of what created my views is the luck of my environment.