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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My parents recently became convinced that Ron Howard had died in a car accident.  They showed me the YouTube videos that led them to that conclusion. 
This latest incident in the Oval Office gave me the same sinking feeling as witnessing them being manipulated.

(They were initially pretty angry with me then embarrassed when I had to show them how they had been deceived by clickbait. We did a little nonjudgmental tutorial on reliable sources and I reminded them of when I jumped the gun on James Earl Jones dying and to please always come to me with any information that concerns them and we can look into it together and they have)[/quote]

The folks manipulating maga really nailed it this time around.  People, and for some reason Americans in particular, are really easy to manipulate.  Trump is easy to manipulate.  Clearly, that’s why he’s so useful to them, he’s no better than your parents at telling truth from fiction. He also has a child’s emotional intelligence so it’s that much easier to give him a pat on the back head snd tell him that he’s a big boy to get him to do what you need him to do.

My question is, why it is so bad in the US compared to other western countries?  Why are we so uniquely stupid?[/quote]

Boomers have no media literacy. They grew up trusting media and government. It is beyond their comprehension to conceive of otherwise. [/quote]

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