The 40% doesn't watch mainstream News

[edhopper]

They watch Fox or get their info from right wing outlets or their fundy pastors or don't get any News at all.
That is my conclusion of why that level of support for Drumpf hasn't eroded, even as he has let 170,000 Americans die and is now destroying the Post Ofiice.
They simple don't know or ignore what is happening.

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. They live in a bubble

[underpants]

2. They reject it off hand too

I could list the sources but they are basically anything you or I would consider responsible. Nope, must be false. All of it. THAT ed is how a cult works. They have them and there is no real way to reprogram them.

[Proud liberal 80]

3. No

They are just hateful and racist

[edhopper]

10. I agree a good percent are

but those alone shouldn't account for more than 25% to 30%. The rest are willfully ignoring reality.

[Proud liberal 80]

11. You are more optimistic than me

Because I think the % is higher

[edhopper]

12. I am basing it on the low points of the GW Bush polls

after Katrina.

But perhaps people have become more hateful and racist since then.

[Laelth]

4. Just so.

What to do about this is another issue altogether.



-Laelth

[Proud liberal 80]

5. Nothing we can do

And unfortunately when Biden is elected, this 40% will be loud and angry. They are going to say things like “I want my country back” and “we are living in tyranny”....The MSM will portray them as scared god fearing Americans.....they will be well organized in the 2022 election and when our side doesn’t vote, they will cause the Republicans to regain both houses.

[delisen]

6. I would say social media zombies. Facebook followers

Victims of the Algorithm. The greatest behavior modification initiative in the history of the world.

[delisen]

7. I would say social media zombies. Facebook followers

Victims of the Algorithm. The greatest behavior modification initiative in the history of the world.

[Kaleva]

8. They watch what reinforces their world view. Changing Fox won't change them.

Some of the more hard-core Trump supporters don't watch Fox because they think it's too anti-Trump.

[Ohiogal]

9. I have a friend whose mother is like that.

Her mom is elderly and disabled. Home in front of the TV most of the time. Says she doesn’t watch the news because it’s “too depressing”. Votes the way her evangelical pastor tells her to.

[cilla4progress]

13. Yes, they won't go away

quietly.

I don't know if this will just run its course or ...

Fortunately, US will soon be a majority minority country! If we can last that long.