Yes they always go quiet when confronted because they don’t want to hear it or they don’t believe you. God forbid they should actually research it. Because they don’t believe anything that goes against what they’ve been told. And they mention all these obscure names and incidents that I’ve never heard of and when I look into them they’re on some weird site I’ve never heard of. But it’s written down so they believe. Because our president has told them not to believe any regular news sources. Very frightening.

The core seed of everything that is wrong today is the level of ignorance and the desire to be ignorant of the facts. Ignorance leads to fear which leads to hatred which results in violence eventually. Education, and I sure as hell don't mean homeschooling, is the cure for what ails us as a society.

I'm not really surprised. It's amazing that he admitted though. I wish more people would admit things like that, just so we know true scale of how batshit they really are.

I agree, Norrie. It is very scary.

Two days ago I joined a few Filipino friends for lunch here in Songkhla, and during the conversation I began talking about what Trump was doing to strip legal rights from the LGBTQ people, detaining brown-skinned people, persecuting minorities, approved by the Christians.

The person I was sitting next to is a Filipino transmale, and his girlfriend, sitting across the table from us began yelling, commanding me to be quiet and to stop attacking Christianity. She said that they were Christians and she wouldn't "allow" me to say anything wrong about their religion.

I was taken aback, wondering if her brain was functioning at all. I began to talk about how my US Christian friends had been posting hate memes on on Facebook, attacking minorities and the LGBTQ community, but she then began yelling at me, commanding me to stay off social media, and then I wouldn't see such things.

I remarked that I didn't really want to hang with them anymore and stood to leave, so she said that was fine with her.

Up to this point, I'd assumed that Asian Christians were more sensible than American Christians, but now I see they are just as willfully ignorant, preferring total denial.

Read; True Believer by Eric Hoffer

Hannity has 45's ear, as do others like him; that's what scares me.

I keep seeing parallels to politics and religion. Politics is becoming more and more like a cult. They both ignore any facts and reality that doesn't suit their chosen fantasy.
They both claim that people who think a different way are evil and must be eradicated. And the more they combine these two things, the closer we get to living a version of the Handmaid's Tale.

When John Oliver devotes an entire episode of his show to deliver ridicule towards another country and their president, in a means to support our governments lies, who then is the worst of the 2? I will argue they are one in the same serving the same establishment agenda.

I refuse to fear idiocy. I will shun it though.

We have the entire knowledge of mankind in our pockets yet use it to look at cats .....

I will have to watch it. I like John Oliver

They're called morons.

Very scary.

It scares the Beejeesus out of me too! One of the problems is that the media is owned by just a handful of rich people and they can, to a great degree, control our perception of events and all that we actually hear to such an extent that they drive the belief systems of a lot of people. But it's also about how people grab on to a belief system and make it a part of themselves and hold on to it for dear life. These folks are easily manipulated by a lie or misstatement that may be later disproved or retracted which, if they even see the retraction or the evidence disproving the statement, makes them even more entrenched. A lot of it has to do with the anti intellectual attitude of so many people.

I remember reading books about the brainwashing that took place in Germany before the war. I never understood how it could be so strong as to effect millions of people. Now we are witnessing it first hand.

I suppose there’ve been propaganda newspapers, and a reason the ‘airwaves’ had once been regulated.. Now it’s 24/7 Propaganda! And the ignorant, incited more than inclined to vote, are eating it up. ...while I’m still listening to Public Broadcasting, promoting worry over the plight of illegal immigrants & transgender rights..

Just like the middle class, we’re losing the middle news, the relevant, researched, neutral news. The BBC plays during the (my) night ..if it’s not dwelling on Africa.. it’s become my last source of non-agenda news ..if I can understand them.

Ugly times, when they shouldn’t be.