This Appalachia Life: My Mother Wasn't Trash

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7. This is just as much magical thinking as the Ayn Randians

These folks get their information from very few sources. Neighbors, Preachers, Radio and TV. They are isolated, distrustful of outsiders. You expect them to get on the internet, wade through all the FUD and lies being spewed, as well as the constant "both sides do it" from more mainstream sources, and figure out the truth of their situation? Even if they do get on the internet they likely are mostly using Facebook and getting inundated with RW crap from at least a few relatives or their friends. There are very few places that still provide a modicum of truth, and these are labeled 'Left Wing crackpots" by the propagandists.

We have a bigger problem here, with the huge amount of propaganda folks are subjected to from all sides. It is a different world than the 1890's or 1930's or even the 1960's. Propaganda has been proven effective over all of human history. It isn't getting less so now.