or, "Gullibility Will Always Win". It seems that Fox News viewers and Trump supporters -- which are largely interchangeable -- will believe just about anything:
It's not a matter of whether or not Fox or Trump has repeated a lie -- it's that his followers and Fox's viewers have been conditioned to believe what they're told by the authority du jour. (And it's relevant that a lot of these people, maybe most, are evangelical "Christians", who are predisposed toward authoritarianism. It would be interesting to see a breakdown on these polls by religious affiliation.)
Putin must be laughing himself silly.
At any rate, read the whole thing -- it's short, and some of the things these people believe will have you shaking your head.
A new poll from Yahoo News and YouGov show that 44 percent of Trump-supporting Republicans think Microsoft founder and philanthropist Bill Gates is using the coronavirus epidemic as a way to secretly implant microchips into billions of people so he can track their movements.
Additionally, 50 percent of Americans who primarily watch Fox News believe the conspiracy theory even though neither Fox nor Trump have ever repeated it.
It's not a matter of whether or not Fox or Trump has repeated a lie -- it's that his followers and Fox's viewers have been conditioned to believe what they're told by the authority du jour. (And it's relevant that a lot of these people, maybe most, are evangelical "Christians", who are predisposed toward authoritarianism. It would be interesting to see a breakdown on these polls by religious affiliation.)
Putin must be laughing himself silly.
At any rate, read the whole thing -- it's short, and some of the things these people believe will have you shaking your head.
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