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And maybe he had Russian or Chinese assistance, notshure, but he has made it very clear fake news now goes both ways. And the consequence is devastating because the once reasonable and grounded people who America runs on, are now becoming as bad as the leftwing nutjobs we've laughed at for years.

These guys I'm not laughing at. I'm truly horrified seeing them. Many are older and in a past life voted for great conservatives, like Ronald Reagan. But today they're misinformed, manipulated by a right wing just as politically toxic and dangerous as the left has been for a long time.

Anyone can be manipulated. Good and bad people. But when the good and decent people are manipulated, it becomes dangerous. They have always been the barrier preventing the bad people from taking over. But they're now being manipulated by a different flavor of "bad" directed at them, and they're eating it up. And these people are what America runs on. They made us great in the past when properly led. But when they lose their political bearings, their sensibility, and reasonableness, it's truly dangerous. Dig down into politics on social media, and you WILL lose reality. Same for the MSM. I blame the internet.

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Just an example, one of many

Aug 13, 2020, 10:01 AM

We used to have an employee who was awesome. Good guy. Super nice. Honest. Conservative. Thoughtful, super intelligent, and funny.

We're friends on Facebook. I rarely even open the Facebook app other than to check groups. But he always posted funny stuff so I have him top of my list. Again, he used to post truly funny stuff. But now he posts political stuff, and ###### near every post is from right-wing social media and is as incorrect as the left wing stuff another good, honest, intelligent friend used to post. But each has their beliefs, and each is being manipulated and misinformed by the far political extreme that matches their ideology....all through social media. And it's bad. I don't pay attention to either of their posts anymore, and social media in general. And no matter your politics, social media is absolutely killing our goodness, honesty, decency, and warping reality.

You have q-anon versus the Russian collusion MSM, and that's just bad. Neither is right. And the MSM is just as bad, although they're better at using real stuff to promote a political agenda. Take CNN. You'll see a legit story about something, and it's factual. Fine. But as you read, you get this ### taste in your mouth because you can see how they're chery picking a legitimate fact, then spinning it to attack Trump. You can't even GET the news from the MSM without wading through the political agenda of it. And even then it's not accurate at times. AND NO ONE CITES SOURCES.

Somewhere between Trump's denial of covid, and the MSM's alarmist agenda-driven coverage, lies reality. And likewise, somewhere between the two lies our best solution.

And in the end, I'll blame the internet.