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17. it isn't just friends and relatives, it is the vast majority -there's a shitload of stupid out there

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Thu Dec 15, 2016, 08:03 AM

Dec 2016

NPR interviewed some focus group guy about surveys of Trump voters (half of whom had voted for Obama), and it turns out that the respondents had totally conflated Hillary's email server deal with the Russian hacking. What a lot of us here on DU fail to realize is that we are part of the exception - the vast majority simply does not have the time to stay current on the incredible amount of news one has to take in, understand, and digest to even have the barest clue about what is really going on here.

Think back to the days when you first got involved in Internet news sources. I know I had a learning curve just determining which sources were legit. And now the number of sources has grown exponentially.

Can you imagine that a single working parent with 2 or 3 kids living paycheck to paycheck would actually have the time to stay up on what the hell is going on?

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