...because they've bought into false narratives. And then they spread those false narratives, which has a snowballing effect. As a result, DU is piled high with giant snowballs of nonsense. It's bad enough that Trump supporters subscribe to patently false beliefs.
We've got people insisting that only a fraction of Trump's supporters are bigots, yet numerous surveys make clear that a vast majority (80+ percent) of Trump supporters either believe Obama is a foreign-born Muslim or are unsure. Racism, folks, lies at the root of that.
And people insisting Clinton didn't talk much about economics when the data disproves that. Some have even said she spoke more about "transgender bathrooms." Who, among those that paid any attention at all to the campaign, could honestly believe that?
And people who refuse to acknowledge that Clinton won among the working class (a portion of *white* working class people have different priorities than the working class as a whole, and it's not hard to determine why).
Democratic Party officials really need to start emphasizing the importance of media literacy and critical thinking. Hammer that home every time they're on Meet the Press or similar shows. Most Trump supporters will never return from the alternate reality in which they exist, but it's not too late to save America's youth. Idiocracy was a movie, but we're on the verge of turning it into a documentary.
Also, long overdue is a full-throated effort to combat the "liberal media" narrative. The media is obsessed with spectacle, while promoting false equivalencies in the name of "balance." And some members of the media have the audacity to say it's not their job to fact-check. The airwaves belong to all of us. They are part of the commons. We should demand that they not be abused.
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