Wednesday, May 12, 2021
This is partly because the only information source she has comes from major media, TV and radio, in the town where she lives.
She also believes that gas prices were low because of covid-19 last year and that they went up now that the Cure is around.
Living in one of the battle ground states, she of course voted blindly for Biden because she didn't like Trump's personality.
And because everything that she knows about Trump comes from one of the three major networks, she is completely misinformed about every aspect of who Trump is, what he’s done, and how much worse her world will become when Biden manages (with Obama pulling his strings) to create a nanny state.
This Blind Faith in major media is a problem across the country where people who do not have the resources to double-check the facts that they are being handed.
These are not the deluded guilt-ridden spoiled middle class college kids brainwashed by their professors into thinking they ought to surrender their future to some socialistic vision, but rather meat and potato people who actually believe the race is narrative that media selling and the anti-Trump narrative that a corrupted media is constantly spewing.
It’s difficult to convince people who have no way of knowing what is real when their only sources of information through the distorted lens of a biased media.
People like this believe as they always have, living with the illusion that we still have the Walter Cronkite-like media we can rely upon, when clearly, we do not.
There is a disconnect between what media is telling us and what people see for themselves; it just takes time for ordinary people like my ex-wife to get over the propaganda she’s been fed to see it.
It is rather ironic that Biden went to visit Jimmy Carter (nobody wearing a mask of course), since Biden’s shutting down the pipeline (combined with a hacker shutting down another pipeline) has caused us to see gas lines again.
This is something some of us haven't seen since the 1970s
Of course, my ex-wife would be appalled by this idea that Biden would eliminate gasoline cars because she has to rely on what she calls “a junker” and she would never be able to afford an electric car worth the cost of charging it.
The only people who can afford electric vehicles are elite, mostly white liberals spouting slogans about saving the world.
Yet being subjected to propaganda is something that does not work when it comes down to actually having to get to and from work or when grocery prices are going through the roof.
And that's the problem but it's so out of touch with average Americans that he needs major media to plow the way with bullshit and to completely confuse people about what the facts are.
George Orwell once claimed that newspapers lied less than other media, but he pointed out that when it comes to television and radio people do not check their facts and often take the media's word at face value.
We know newspapers lie, he said, they just lied less blatantly than other newer media
But judging from my ex-wife this is not true
People who have no ability to check fax will believe what they're told
It's sort of like that old joke
What do you feed a fly?
Pull its wings off and you can feed it anything you want.
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