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In reply to the discussion: Why the American People hate Congress (at a glance, via one graphic) [View all]tblue37
(65,357 posts)to be sucked in by propaganda then go only to "information" sources that reinforce their ideology, which they adopted in the first place because of propaganda, so they never do learn any real facts about the people running for office. And even when they do accidentally bump into truths, they dismiss them as lies because those facts dont reinforce the narrative they have already adopted because of propaganda they have been sucked in by.
It's a self-reinforcing feedback loop.
Remember the sketch on Bill Mahr's Real Time in which he and Keith Olbermann tried desperately to get through to a Republican voter who didn't even acknowledge that they were speaking because he was in a bubble and could not hear them?
That's the problem: RW voters are in a bubble created by propaganda sources (the RW echo chamber). They can't even hear facts that they are accidentally exposed to, and they certainly are not willing to go to any source that provides information that doesn't reinforce their RW beliefs. (Or of they do, it is only to troll there--like when Freepers show up here only to taunt us, not to gather information.)