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In reply to the discussion: A Major New Study Shows That Political Polarization Is Mainly A Right-Wing Phenomenon [View all]JHan
(10,173 posts)We're in our own bubble - where we assume everyone must know what we know. We see this with pundits all the time , and even those of us who follow politics closely - we always assume people out there know more than they actually do, when they don't.
And in this arena, are think tanks and institutes which have poured billions into destroying facts and shaping narratives that benefit them and them alone.
Fox News has also been instrumental here in the tools they use: "Fair and Balanced" - where "fair" and "balance" are both a ruse to introduce non-facts to challenge real facts. Rogers Ailes understood that facts can't match passion and anger, facts can be destroyed by appealing to people's emotions and fears. This is how he and fox news shaped stories to sell to their gullible audience- by giving untruths and lies the same weight as truth.
So the phenomenon needs examination. It also challenges the notion that the liberal bubble is as isolated from reality as the conservative bubble - it isn't.