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In reply to the discussion: Why do Democrats do so poorly with rural voters? [View all]napoleon_in_rags
(3,991 posts)Because truth alone thrives under the watchful eyes of many peers, ideas that thrive in isolation can't thrive in that environment.
And isolation is the major factor. There are ideas that can thrive with a group of peers consisting of a few that get shut down with a peer group numbering in the thousands. Kevin bacon rules will suggest that once your peer group is in the thousands, one of them knew somebody (or will know somebody who knows somebody) who personally grew up with Obama in Hawaii. Many of them will have the necessary skills needed to see that archival news stories and an authentic birth certificate is sufficient grounds to validate the claims. But you get a few isolated people in the middle of nowhere, and reality about the external world is whatever they believe it to be.