Why Do Conservatives Fall For Fake News?

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All I am going to add at this time is you try being at ground zero in a manufactured culture war and see how easy it is to recognize those that are not your friends and would rather you didn’t exist or speak. It is hard not to be a bit uppity and want to lash out or feel that even those who may be nice to your face usually secretly despise what you are and as much as I detest today’s partisan sideism, it isn’t hard to know what side my bread is buttered on and it isn’t for goddamned sure the Republican party.

Imagine now amid relative peace and calm and a place I could come to without having to constantly defend against the tactics and propaganda of this war which in most cases are based on lies, dis/misinformation, ignorance and willful ignorance and how it now feels to have that degree of relative tranquility shattered by refugees carrying forth with the same agenda that caused their ousting in other places gives me a great deal of grief because I know how entrenched and closed-minded they are in their self-righteous ideology fueled by rightwing talking heads and circle-jerking accolades from their comrades and I know when the bullshit flies I will have to respond and I have better things to do with my life.

As I see it, my choices are to take a break, ignore it all and let things devolve as they clearly will or metaphorically load my spare magazines and chamber a round and gleefully join the shitshow which would be pretty dumb when I’m outnumbered by those that insist on winning at all cost in a game they’ve been herded into playing like literal sheep.

I’m too old for this shit.

You don't come off as uppity to me, but I have noticed at the other site psychological intimidation tactics such as labelling someone using a negative term/word such as that is really an attempt to manipulate and intimidate when their political spin or their twisting the facts or them leaving out other truths is called out.

Rather you come off as a warrior standing up for what you know to be your truth. Those than don't walk in your shoes do not know your truth and most here and the other site have no interest or unable to objectively open their mind to other people's certain realities and truths in life, but I am trying to listen and understand.

I'll stick with the science and watch what happens in the courtrooms because there we get more than an inkling of what is empirical evidence and societal truth, or at least what the majority of society deems equitable (jury of one's peers) and where the science holds truth, and from this position we can then know better where the culture/religious/political wars are heading.