Not that The Gadfly needed any additional confirmation from a major news organization, but it's become pretty damn clear that around a third of this nation's adults have consciously chosen to live their lives inside of a disinformation mega-bubble.
How do you fix this level of willful stupidity? I don't think you can. I think the only kind of lesson that will remedy such feeble mindedness is something that will strike terror and horror into the populace to such an extreme extent that it snaps them out of their stupor, something along the lines of a Great Depression or a World War.
MAGA Americans are steering the US toward one of those two unpleasant ends it appears, and pity them when the time comes for everyone to share in the reckoning from the consequences of them succeeding in their mission:
Link: AP-NORC poll finds low confidence in Trump on Cabinet picks | AP News
A functioning democracy won't remain functioning for very long when a sizable portion of it's citizenry aspires to be obtuse and cartoonishly stupid.
--- TFG
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