how did the older posters here avoid being radicalized by Faux and AM hate radio?

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45. I started watching during the Clinton impeachment.

I was just flipping channels and landed on Fox. I was pretty mad at Clinton for his behavior, which I thought damaged the country and the Democratic party. Yeah, yeah, none of our business what he does in his personal life. But anyone else in the country would have been fired for doing that at work. And then he lied about it. I was mad at him for putting us in that position.

I had no idea before I landed on the channel that it was even there, and I was fascinated by it. They certainly sounded different from the others. It was sort of nice that someone else was outraged by his behavior. It felt completely one-sided, which I was in the mood for at the time.

Ok, none of this was rational. It was completely emotional. That's how they hook the viewers and how they control them. I didn't watch for long (hours, not days or weeks) because something about it made me feel like I was losing brain cells every minute. It felt dirty and sort of cultish after a bit. I think I recognized that it wasn't healthy and I never watched that channel again.

What's the difference between me and the millions of current Fox viewers? How did I see the trap and they didn't? I really don't know.