The result “blows the lid off of this idea” that such beliefs are held by only a fringe population of individuals who are uninformed or ideologically driven, says David Bersoff, head of research at the Edelman Trust Institute. “This is not like a small problematic group.”
The conservative world has captured the media, and it’s the single largest problem facing health, science, democracy, and so much else these days.
It’s terrifyingly sad
huh, i live in a highly liberal area… people here are just as stupid and believe all sorts of crazy nonsense.
mostly because they believe it makes them smart and progressive. and if you show them evidence that is contrary, they just call you ignorant and stupid and conservative. because it’s conservatives who are stupid and bad, if you are liberal you can’t ever be wrong!
I’m surprised how many liberals are against nuclear power and GMO crops. For a long time I’ve considered them to be good if done safely, while a lot of liberals are against them across the board. If the alternative is famine and coal power, I think it’s worth it.
Yet the oligarch-owned mass media and political class will claim “nobody could have predicted this”; meanwhile “the left” have considered the fascist state propaganda machines that conservatism have constructed around the world, and the disinformation campaigns they wage 24/7, to be the greatest threat facing humanity for multiple decades…
We know exactly who the propaganda operatives are. They could be destroyed or neutered at any time. The oligarchs can’t destroy democracy without first destroying the minds of the average voter, so their propaganda machines are allowed to continue.