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(6,133 posts)It doesn't matter. It never mattered. Fox viewers are fixed. We can laugh at them and argue with them, but I don't think even Bill Nye, the science guy who taught their children on tv in the 90s makes a difference. They are solid, fixed and brainwashed. The only hope is that the white viewers who look like me, die. So I won't see it, because I will die too.
underpants
(182,603 posts)Skittles
(153,111 posts)it is trash
Human101948
(3,457 posts)While fringe members were more inclined to recognize that they had made fools of themselves and to "put it down to experience", committed members were more likely to re-interpret the evidence to show that they were right all along (the earth was not destroyed because of the faithfulness of the cult members).
http://www.simplypsychology.org/cognitive-dissonance.html
bulloney
(4,113 posts)to make a T-shirt for a piss ant!
Dustlawyer
(10,494 posts)It's viewers are victims of that propaganda. They are either less educated, or want to believe that the scapegoats Fox blames for our problems are the real culprits. They may be racists so they would rather choose to believe that it is minorities or immigrants causing their problems rather than the system set up by TPTB to screw them over.
The propaganda keeps them angry and afraid so that they will refuse to believe or even listen to other facts or viewpoints that don't completely jive with their worldview. In effect, they are inoculated against the truth! They can see and hear confirmation of that propaganda through other propaganda outlets which is all of the confirmation they need.
It is up to us to try to get them exposed to the truth, that they have been victims of displaced anger. I have found that they all believe that government is corrupt, so I start there. Then I explain how TPTB have been manipulating "us" while ripping us off and blaming others. Some see it, many still do not, at least not after going back and thinking about it some more.
brush
(53,740 posts)Or are they thinking to hell with what brainwashing deception goes out over the air, I'm getting paid big money?