[quote=zk]I think most people in that category were influenced by right-wing propaganda.

I mean, I can see not thinking Hillary would be a great president. I can see not thinking she would be a good president (although I would disagree).

But thinking she was anywhere near as bad as the piece of shit now in the oval office required belief in a lot of the bullshit that fox news and the rest of the right-wing propaganda machine were spewing.

Which is exactly what I was talking about when I started this thread.[/quote]

Oh really let’s see here. Fox news reaches it’s highest primetime viewership ever of 3.5 million viewers in February 2020. https://www.foxnews.com/media/highest-viewership-network-history-msnbc-cnn-2020. I think we can agree to be brainwashed you’d probably need to watch that far right media a lot. You’d probably need to be in that group of 3.5 million average primetime viewers to even be considered brainwashed.

So how many people voted in the 2016 presidential election? About 139 million. So how much is 3.5 million of 139 million? About 3%. So was the bulk of the electorate influenced by right wing brainwashing? No, but it’s a convenient excuse for not actually understanding how other people live their life and why they vote the way they do. Most importantly it doesn’t explain why Trump beat Hillary.