2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: A Bernie Sanders Shocker Is Coming [View all]RKP5637
(67,112 posts)quote like they have a badge of knowledge and authority, because they heard something on Fox News, like it's the news from the supreme being or whatever.
And, often they are not rabid teabaggers or something, they just can't seem to wrap their heads around multiple sources of information.
It reminds me of my childhood of my grandmother saying, you know, they can't print in newspapers or say anything on the radio that isn't 100% true. As a little kid I use to think WTF granny, but said nothing. Everyone was so trusting. Now, everyone is certainly not like that, but seemingly many are ... it is ever so frustrating. And they are good people, but just ever so mislead.
The US population really needs a massive instruction course in understanding propaganda and half truths. Or at minimal, understanding who Paul Joseph Goebbels was and what he did, but now AKA 21st century Fox News.