By mistake (AKA hashgaha) my finger got stuck on a radio talk show in the car, and it helped me understand where is common & other like posters getting so worked up: in five minutes, I heard Fauci/someone died from myocarditis – VACCINATED?/most dying now are unvaccinated/why didnt they test the vaccine!?/ multiple times… I give the credit where it is due – posters here at least try to have a dialog about it rather than just shouting like this guy and his callers.
The explanation for this informational virus seems simple: Trump invited a lot of working/minority voters that were former happy recipients of the “donations” that Dems took from Republicans by asking them “what do you have to lose”, etc. So, now “uneducated” are becoming a arger segment of R- votes and plenty of pols and entertainers address these voters with populist rhetoric. I don’t think it made things worse overall for the country – average citizen IQ (hopefully) did not decrease, it is just that before these people were in the lefty craziness world and I never heard them, and now they moved to the right. Democracy has it’s price, I guess …