Rachel Maddow: Poll Reveals Trump Voters Live in Alternate State of Reality

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5. It's not just ignorance but willfully spreading lies.

A prime example is my 40-something nephew, a senior mechanic at his city's bus garage.

In a recent FB exchange, he tried to needle his liberal aunt by telling me how he's been walking with a cane, but, because of "lousy Obamacare," he probably won't get surgery for it before he's retirement age.

I answered how surprising it was that he even had to rely on Obamacare, since certainly a city the size of his would offer employees a full benefits package. While awaiting his reply, I googled it, and, sure enough, his city had a generous insurance package for employees and their dependents.

The only response I received from my beloved nephew was a smiley face, presumably because he he knew his aunt caught him in a lie, trying to blame Obamacare -- and therefore Obama and all us nasty liberals -- for whatever problems he was having with EMPLOYER-SPONSORED insurance plan.

He's not a dumb guy, but judging by this exchange and the patently false right-wing "memes" he posts, he -- and no doubt other Trump voters like him -- willfully embrace and spread lies that anybody could see through if they weren't drinking that Trump-brand Kool-Aid.