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In reply to the discussion: 🔥 🔥 Lots of info in those new *Muller documents* just released. 🔥 🔥 [View all]Moostache
(9,895 posts)38-40% are what I consider to be hard core Trumpers - a mishmash of Birthers, Tea Party Racists, zealot Republicans and conservatives more interested in their personal wealth and taxes than anything else in the world...
But there are also 10-15% of the population who are neither right nor left, neither alive or dead...the great "centrist / undecided" voters...and these people tend to be the ones living off of information from social media or 'gut feelings' like who they would rather have a beer with instead of nuanced policy positions or geopolitical views. These people are just as fact free as the rest...
And I have to be honest, there are a good number of people on the left who also tend to be fact-free. This grouping is a far smaller one, but even if its 2-5% of Democrats, it pushes the numbers of fact-free voters into the majority of the country with ease. And the media is all too happy to play to the lowest common denominator crowd regardless.
So many people are utterly fact-free or confused easily because it is actual WORK to remain informed and aware of issues and consequences of policy beyond the 12 second sound bites and 12 minute talking head shouting matches that masquerade as journalism on the TV box...