@farmerman,
Quote:Actually Ive been wondering whether you guys have always been this gullible or is it just cause youve got a Rpublican president.
It's an interesting question. My take has two parts:
1) I suspect that human populations have a percentage of people who prefer an authoritarian figure at the top (there's research that supports this thesis). These are often the folks who become ardent followers. In our context, this is the Trump/Fox/Limbaugh followers (remember "ditto heads", the term Limbaugh's listeners proudly used to describe themselves).
2) Right wing media, Fox particularly, have set out on a business model that makes a LOT of money through emotion-generating misinformation. The consequence is an audience made purposefully more stupid (which is always the desired goal of a liar)