how do we keep people from being fooled again?
You say "you did not have to be educated to see what he was."
The problem is the people I'm describing don't read, and don't watch much news. What "news" they do get is from Facebook or YouTube or other on-line sources which are notoriously unreliable.
A big part of Secretary Clinton's problem was all the rabid disinformation that was out there, twenty years or more of right wing slanders. To get to the bottom of all the bullshit required doing the "homework."
So we had this situation where the "both-sides-ism" prevailed--if Trump was a pussy-grabber, Clinton murdered Vince Foster. If Trump was connected to the Russians, the Clintons dealt with Latin American drug lords.
It occurs to me now that a huge source of this BS was the National Inquirer--which we now know was a part of the "capture and kill" culture that buried genuine dirt on Trump, and spread bogus crap about the Clintons. Fact is that National Inquirer, because of its salacious stories and easy to digest format, is (or was) another major source of "news" for this particular demo.
There's a DUer who has posted multiple times about how we need to figure out a way to counter hate radio--another huge part of the problem. One thing that makes hate radio so effective is that it is geared precisely to folks who don't read for information, who seek out "news" sources that are easily digested.
If we don't deal with these issues, eight or twelve years from now we'll end up in the same place.
Reagan Bush trashed the economy--Bill Clinton fixed it, and yet only eight years after the GOP debacle the Republicans were able to garner enough votes to steal the 2000 election.
By 2008 Bush II had again trashed the economy and--as an added bonus--had us involved in a disastrous foreign adventure that nearly destroyed our standing around the world. President Obama fixed the economy, restored our reputation around the world, and yet in 2016 the GOP again garnered enough votes to retake the White House--and stack the courts with RWNJs.
I worry that once Biden/Harris pull us out of the current mess, we will again end up with a significant slice of the electorate who will again be duped into voting GOP.
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