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January 17, 2017 at 2:35 PM #804940
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This article was written 5 years ago. It’s only gotten worse since then.

http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2012/03/20/age-of-ignorance/

In it, the author says,

“The ideal citizen of a politically corrupt state…is a gullible dolt unable to tell truth from bullshit.”

And

“The hucksters, who manipulate them for the powerful financial interests, know that they can be made to believe anything, because, to the ignorant and the bigoted, lies always sound better than truth:

Christians are persecuted in this country.
The government is coming to get your guns.
Obama is a Muslim.
Global Warming is a hoax.
The president is forcing open homosexuality on the military.
Schools push a left-wing agenda.
Social Security is an entitlement, no different from welfare.
Obama hates white people.
The life on earth is 10,000 years old and so is the universe.
The safety net contributes to poverty.
The government is taking money from you and giving it to sex-crazed college women to pay for their birth control.

One could easily list many more such commonplace delusions believed by Americans. They are kept in circulation by hundreds of right-wing political and religious media outlets whose function is to fabricate an alternate reality for their viewers and their listeners.”

I’m not going to say all trump voters are racist or bad people. But I do think that virtually all of them are “gullible dolt[s] unable to tell truth from bullshit.”