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Jimbo S

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45. One word I heard on a civic affairs show Sunday

Mon Dec 19, 2016, 02:36 PM

Dec 2016

"gullible"

Then it hit me.

To me, it's not so much a D or an R won the election. It's that so many of our citizens are gullible for false news.

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A new poll shows an astonishing 52% of Republicans incorrectly think Trump won the popular vote [View all] riversedge Dec 2016 OP

How the hell can democracy survive under these conditions? Girard442 Dec 2016 #1

The US has truly become the Land of Idiocracy! It can't! RKP5637 Dec 2016 #4

Well election night he was yeoman6987 Dec 2016 #13

Yep, that's probably a large part of it. I know most of my friends don't follow things like we do RKP5637 Dec 2016 #15

plus FAKE NEWS on Facebook last week posted Trump was ahead womanofthehills Dec 2016 #41

Exactly! The spreading of falsehoods has to be met with severe penalties. Yes, we have RKP5637 Dec 2016 #8

Democracy cannot survive under the current environment or the way things are at present. Alekzander Dec 2016 #14

Agree! Well said!!! n/t RKP5637 Dec 2016 #18

Inventing a false reality is the only way they can "make" reality seem to justify their policies Mc Mike Dec 2016 #2

I think we have a winner here Va Lefty Dec 2016 #19

They have to convince themselves of that. UCmeNdc Dec 2016 #3

Until the electoral college votes he isnt the President and if they stupidly vote for him cstanleytech Dec 2016 #9

As per Rush Limpballs - Laf.La.Dem. Dec 2016 #5

This is just beyond my comprehension ramapo Dec 2016 #6

They were stupid enough to vote Dump in, so I'm not surprised. About half of America is really RKP5637 Dec 2016 #11

Republicans have an advantage over us jimlup Dec 2016 #7

sadly, what you say is true :-( etherealtruth Dec 2016 #33

And they will claim that anything that says otherwise is FAKE news. Thor_MN Dec 2016 #10

Liar-in-Chief continues to say he won by a landslide, of course they believe him. Thinkingabout Dec 2016 #12

His is the loudest bullhorn. The meek truth is no match. And now he is also their pied piper. JudyM Dec 2016 #17

A Third Of Louisiana Republicans Blame Obama For Hurricane Katrina Response Under Bush babylonsister Dec 2016 #16

This deserves its own OP, babylonsister. Even though it's old, it explains a lot. JudyM Dec 2016 #20

I might call them the irredeemables . Ignorance and racism combo . Remember this is from lunasun Dec 2016 #22

We'll get nowhere without effectively addressing both the false media and the impotent media. JudyM Dec 2016 #24

But the evangelists said it was the LGBT and New Orleans sinful ways which brought Katrina to Thinkingabout Dec 2016 #37

The U.S.A has become the C.S.A. malchickiwick Dec 2016 #21

Ignorance is no excuse! n/t tom_kelly Dec 2016 #23

I swear to God that 30% of Repubs believe the COLGATE4 Dec 2016 #25

They live in their own reality where facts don't matter. JHan Dec 2016 #26

It's not astonishing, it just shows how ignorant they really are mdbl Dec 2016 #27

A similar percentage of Republicans think Obama is a Muslim inwiththenew Dec 2016 #28

That says it all, doesn't it? Baitball Blogger Dec 2016 #29

There goes that cognitive dissonance thing again ailsagirl Dec 2016 #30

I blame the biggest confabulator ever: FOX "news". lambchopp59 Dec 2016 #31

Some more alternative reality of Trumpian idiots - stock market, unemployment rate, exclude Calif... progree Dec 2016 #32

Most Reeps, including our leaders, live in Cloudcuckooland. ananda Dec 2016 #34

total failure by democrats to set the record straight. hillary hiding and running away from the win msongs Dec 2016 #35

Are these people not functioning adults? BlueStater Dec 2016 #42

If you keep saying a lie over 6 times it eventually becomes pbmus Dec 2016 #36

There is nothing astonishing about it, maybe that the number is so low! Rex Dec 2016 #38

These are people who simply don't want to know. truthisfreedom Dec 2016 #39

52% of the R's don't really know what ''popular vote'' means. YOHABLO Dec 2016 #40

This is why fake news outlets need to be held accountable. AgadorSparticus Dec 2016 #43

that's because they don't think certain people's votes shouldn't count JI7 Dec 2016 #44

One word I heard on a civic affairs show Sunday Jimbo S Dec 2016 #45

What is astonishing is that there are so few. nt FigTree Dec 2016 #46