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OliverQ

(3,363 posts) Mon May 7, 2018, 06:41 PM May 2018

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Propaganda and Normalizing Scandal

How do you combat the growing success of right-wing propaganda, denial of facts, and normalizing scandal and bad behavior?

Trump's poll numbers are still going up. More people still view the country as doing well according to polls that came out today. 86% of Republicans, 38% of Independents, and 9% of Dems approve of Trump.

These numbers are terrifying. How do you combat this insane level of depravity and brainwashing among such a huge amount of the population? I just feel like it's impossible to fight such powerful propaganda.

Short of the entire economy crashing into a massive recession in the near future, I don't see Trump's poll numbers going back down into the low 30s.

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Propaganda and Normalizing Scandal (Original Post) OliverQ May 2018 OP

It is about the economy. nt ginnyinWI May 2018 #1

Oh but her emails. Dawson Leery May 2018 #2

ginnyinWI

(17,276 posts)

1. It is about the economy. nt

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Mon May 7, 2018, 06:43 PM

May 2018

Dawson Leery

(19,348 posts)

2. Oh but her emails.

Reply to OliverQ (Original post)

Mon May 7, 2018, 07:03 PM

May 2018

Each side gets 40% starting out.
The fact is the 40% on the right have no moral compass.
There are that many bad people in the world.

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