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In reply to the discussion: FOX has done to our parents what our parents thought video games would do to us. [View all]JHB
(37,122 posts)26. No, you don't. I have relatives well short of retirement who disprove that theory.
There's a kind of dark charisma to the idea that "we know the real deal, unlike those dopes who just go along with what they're told".
That can be very attractive to people who think "things just don't add up" by presenting things in a way that, on first encounter, does seem to explain things. If it stokes their biases and they don't have an inclination to gnaw on it for a while until they notice "that doesn't add up either", they're liable to swallow it whole.
Not exclusive to FOX, but it is the FOX business model.
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FOX has done to our parents what our parents thought video games would do to us. [View all]
NightWatcher
Jun 2019
OP
You are unfortunately correct. They cannot accept that progress and change are inevitable.
Caliman73
Jun 2019
#38
Well said! Black and white it is, gobbling up spoon-fed nonsense and lies about liberals.
machoneman
Jun 2019
#48
FOX and hate radio have turned friends and family members into strangers..."addicted to anger"...
FailureToCommunicate
Jun 2019
#16
"FOX viewers have turned friends and family members into strangers..."addicted to anger"..."
pazzyanne
Jun 2019
#18
The article really explains so well what we sense is happening to those unfortunate
FailureToCommunicate
Jun 2019
#63
My parents, and my wife's parents, are still the Social Justice Democrats they've always been.
hunter
Jun 2019
#51
A shame too. There are far more important things to do then have the TV tell you blah...blah...
SWBTATTReg
Jun 2019
#54