Reply #125: Umm...

[Dr Morbius]

thanks, no need to be sorry, and someone clever once told me no one ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the American people. Someone clever; not very nice but clever.

This is a nation of consumers. We're trained from birth to want to consume. And the sad truth is that for a majority of people, if they can simply consume the news instead of thinking about it, they will choose to do so. People are full of concerns about their lives, and will happily let someone else do the thinking for them. Combine that with Joseph Goebbels principles of propaganda, and viola! We have a group taking advantage of Mr. Lincoln's observation: you can fool some of the people all the time. All they needed to do was get the fools to the polls...