Decades of relentless gaslighting is an immensely powerful form of brainwashing.
When it’s combined with a nearly perfectly closed bubble, very few escape with their sanity and capacity for critical thinking intact.
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Paddzr@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I know critical thinking isn’t something a fox news viewer has… but cmon? They can’t be this stupid?
Decades of relentless gaslighting is an immensely powerful form of brainwashing.
When it’s combined with a nearly perfectly closed bubble, very few escape with their sanity and capacity for critical thinking intact.
I mean just look at the high gas prices (which are still dirt cheap compared to germany) and people don’t realize it is Trumps doing. Or how he slashes Medicaid. Things that are really perceivable in your everyday live and not abstract politics.
So yeah, totally believable that a lot of those people fall for this kinda news.
I work at a nfp hospital and had to hold off on some house reno. Anytime anyone I even suspect is leaning not-left I always say *well that project has been put on hold. With all the Medicare/Medicaid cuts and that being the bulk of our reimbursement…no raises."
Some have a semblance of critical thinking and realize that those cuts actually hurt people while others gaze blankly
They’re itching for a reason to hate on anyone that might have learned anything because it proves to them that clever=bad.
Klear@piefed.world 3 days ago
You know the answer to that question.