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The Trump implosion would be even more fun if Deplorables were smart enough to know they were jobbed (Original Post) DemocratSinceBirth Apr 2017 OP
Yep HAB911 Apr 2017 #1
It's like someone playing a practical joke on someone and the person not getting it. DemocratSinceBirth Apr 2017 #3
They really don't get it, though, do they? Squinch Apr 2017 #2
It shows the power of propaganda. shraby Apr 2017 #5
That too. And we are not good at propaganda. Squinch Apr 2017 #6
"It is easier to fool people than to convince them... alterfurz Apr 2017 #15
Like he said before his "election" Laf.La.Dem. Apr 2017 #4
Geniuses C_U_L8R Apr 2017 #7
Fox brainwashes them - they are told Trump/GOP are great sharedvalues Apr 2017 #8
This is the main problem. Ligyron Apr 2017 #11
Fox is the biased media; they claim others are biased to hide their agenda. sharedvalues Apr 2017 #14
It sometimes seems like a cult lostnfound Apr 2017 #12
It is a cult. Fox news watchers have many attributes of a cult. sharedvalues Apr 2017 #13
And when he crashes and burns they will blame everone JDC Apr 2017 #9
nothing changes the mind of a zealot, don't need to beachbum bob Apr 2017 #10

Squinch

(50,949 posts)
2. They really don't get it, though, do they?
Sun Apr 2, 2017, 08:35 AM
Apr 2017

They really can ignore anything that they don't want to see, can't they? Explains the strength of their hypocrisy.

shraby

(21,946 posts)
5. It shows the power of propaganda.
Sun Apr 2, 2017, 08:42 AM
Apr 2017

It's a powerful tool. So powerful that at the end of WWII, the man who ran the newspaper propaganda for the third reich was hung for doing it.

alterfurz

(2,474 posts)
15. "It is easier to fool people than to convince them...
Sun Apr 2, 2017, 03:07 PM
Apr 2017

...that they have been fooled." — Mark Twain

sharedvalues

(6,916 posts)
8. Fox brainwashes them - they are told Trump/GOP are great
Sun Apr 2, 2017, 09:14 AM
Apr 2017

The main problem is that people have made the dumb decision to watch Fox and listen to Limbaugh


Once that happens they're not really responsible - the GOP is propagandizing them through their media.

You or I would be pro-Trump if we listened to that stuff.

Ligyron

(7,632 posts)
11. This is the main problem.
Sun Apr 2, 2017, 09:28 AM
Apr 2017

Most of the time their audience never hear the truth to begin with and if they do they are told it's fake news.

 

beachbum bob

(10,437 posts)
10. nothing changes the mind of a zealot, don't need to
Sun Apr 2, 2017, 09:23 AM
Apr 2017

the 65% of america who see trump and conservatives for what they are...are only needed as long as they get off their asses and vote

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