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How Do You Govern When Half The Country Is Trapped In A Disinformation Bubble? All In MSNBC (Original Post) yuiyoshida Nov 2020 OP
The brainwashed Trumpers who think only they know the truth andym Nov 2020 #1
perhaps they can't, ultimately stopdiggin Nov 2020 #2
This message was self-deleted by its author Freelancer Nov 2020 #4
Especially when that half is paranoid and heavily armed NT Bozvotros Nov 2020 #3
Segregation and an aggressive inbreeding program... Thomas Hurt Nov 2020 #5
reeducation camps - there's already plenty by the border. KG Nov 2020 #6
Well, that is a depressing light on the subject. TigressDem Nov 2020 #7
You SILENCE trump and don't put his face on TV. He is TOXIC. magicguido Nov 2020 #8

andym

(5,442 posts)
1. The brainwashed Trumpers who think only they know the truth
Mon Nov 23, 2020, 03:19 AM
Nov 2020

How many of his 73+M voters are in the disinformation bubble? Millions. Maybe most. How can they be deprogrammed?

stopdiggin

(11,234 posts)
2. perhaps they can't, ultimately
Mon Nov 23, 2020, 03:35 AM
Nov 2020

but a lot of them can be persuaded (through bitter experience if necessary) that they do have to obey the law(s). And the rest of us might have to be content with that ...

(and try real hard not to let your kids marry in to the cultist devolution)

Response to andym (Reply #1)

TigressDem

(5,125 posts)
7. Well, that is a depressing light on the subject.
Mon Nov 23, 2020, 06:11 AM
Nov 2020

He is right. Drinking the koolaid, started to describe cult-like behavior and it totally fits the way people are behaving right now.


Per Rush... the four corners of deceit... Government, Academia, Science and the Media

AND YET, checks and balances.... WE THE PEOPLE hold Government accountable, or at least we used to be able to do that.

Academia, isn't that where you learn to think for yourself? Where you are taught the basics and how to apply yourself thoughtfully to the tasks you choose and or are given? Where intelligent people study in depth things like Constitutional Law?

Science. Deceit. Really? OK. Sometimes evidence can seem to point to a wrong conclusion, but once new evidence is found and the case re-examined, scientists say, "Hey, more evidence changes the theory."

AND the Media is the Fourth Estate - got us out of the McCarthy era, Took Nixon down, eventually gets to the truth about a lot of things.

https://law.yale.edu/mfia/case-disclosed/fourth-estate-final-check



HOW DO YOU REACH THESE PEOPLE WHEN THEY LIVE IN BACKWARDS WORLD WHERE ONLY THE LIES OF THE CULT ARE TRUTH AND EVERYTHING ELSE IS FAKE NEWS???


And somehow we have to reach them or they will pick up their guns and go on rampages. Oh wait, that's already happened.

OK so if we CAN'T find a way through the crazy, the inmates will take over the asylum and we will all live in crazy town whether we like it or not.


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