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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)1/06/2020 7:21:18 am PST

re: #86 The Pie Overlord!

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re: #87 sagehen

During the holidays, Ziegler spent time with people at each level, but specifically wanted to relate his interactions with two people, who he calls Matt and Sue, and who are at level 3. Matt is highly educated, a teacher, and a strong Christian. When Ziegler pointed out that Trump wasn’t so great because he didn’t carry out his campaign promises (build a wall, drain the swap, lock Hillary up, reduce the deficit, release his taxes, etc.), Matt got quite agitated and blamed the Democrats. When Ziegler pointed out that for the first 2 years of his presidency, the Republicans controlled both chambers of Congress and the White House, so the Democrats had no power to block him, Matt got angry and left.

Sue is an older, wealthy, very Christian woman who used to be a big fan of Ziegler’s radio show. She wanted to know how someone with such a proven track record as a conservative could question Trump at all. She seemed to sincerely not understand it. As an experiment, Ziegler asked her some questions:

Did she know that as a candidate, Trump was trying to build a massive tower in Moscow?
Did she know that his personal lawyer was in prison for lying about this to Congress?
Did she know that Trump’s written answers to Robert Mueller were very likely perjurious?

Sue is an avid news watcher. She loves OANN. yet she knew nothing about any of these things and was genuinely surprised to hear about them. She lives in the proverbial bubble. By the end of the conversation, Ziegler was convinced that if she had watched CNN once in a while, she might not be a Trump supporter at all. In other words, he believes that as long as Trump’s supporters get their news exclusively from Trump-supporting sources, they will remain loyal, but if a bit of truth ever gets to them, they could waver.

That sounds right to me. FNC and OANN promote a reality of the Trump presidency that simply doesn’t exist. But frankly that’s their own damn fault because there are more sources out there than just the RW echochamber.