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

[inthewind21]

103. It's an excuse

It's a way to rationalize away the WHY while allowing the individual to escape responsibility. It's done ALL THE TIME. School shooting, it was bullying or mental health. 84 year old shoots a kid for knocking on the wrong door, he watched FOX all the time. Trump elected, HE CHEATED, Hillary got more votes. Even know total vote count is NOT how we elect presidents and never has been. It's a way to blame any and everything BUT the individual(s).

We can all scream at top volume all day long about the insanity that is the state of the U.S. right now. But the reality is, there is a rather large portion of the voting population who are, by choice, gullible, lazy and easily led where politicians want them to go. We can blame FOX, Republicans, Cheating, Gerrymandering, the Russians whatever we want. But it doesn't change the fact that we are all (meaning the US voters) responsible for our choices. And until the masses (including the easily led, those who vote 3rd party and those who don't vote at all) decide things need to change. Things will not change and most likely will get worse.

Fox stays on air, because viewers keep it there. Government is what it is, because the people voted, voted 3rd party or didn't vote at all. The federal courts are what they are because people voted in the congress and POTUS that selects those judges. Russian interference in the election worked, because people bought into it. Too many guns, well elect different people and you MIGHT have different results. It's shocking to see just how many don't really know HOW the government works from the POTUS all the way down to local school board and how they are ALL intertwined. How many times have you heard "Vote them ALL out"? And how many times have you actually seen it happen?