re: #128 ObserverArt

They thought the intelligent decision was to pick the outsider that told them he was going to make the intelligent decisions. They bought that. It is a signal that not only are they not educated voters they are also lazy.

Democracy tends to need input from all and at the very minimum make oneself aware of what is going on in the Democracy and who is best for it.

Too many people fall for what they are told and forget they should follow what they learn. Learning is a verb. You have to put forth some effort.

Being told something isn’t necessarily different from learning something — after all in classrooms throughout the country, children are instructed by teachers. The problem is the source of information: we usually cannot do our own investigations and therefore have to rely on information that others provide.

Maybe I was being too harsh on the 46%: after all, even those relying on legitimate news sources in 2016 were being harangued daily about Hillary’s emails; the legitimate sources gave Trump free air time and failed to do their due diligence about the candidate. Comey who was at that time respected by even the right wing denigrated her. So, our real problem may be that there no longer is a reliable source of news that is widely respected throughout the country; we no longer have a Walter Cronkite that we can rely on. We are living in a world of “fake news” and alternative “facts”; how is the average person supposed to be able to distinguish truth from falsehood these days if even legitimate sources do their both siderisms?