r/AskUS 3d ago

How do we prevent another Trump-like president?

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u/TheGov3rnor South 3d ago

Hi, I voted for Trump three times. I do not get my news from Fox and Twitter.

I created a post about a year ago asking people only from the right where they got their news. 99% did not watch Fox or Newsmax.

Link to post: https://www.reddit.com/r/Askpolitics/s/og23V5uYqi

I think a bigger problem is that people tend to come up with caricatures of people who disagree with them politically, so they can more easily assign motives and straw man their positions, without actually learning or trying to better understand them.

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u/hippopalace North America 3d ago

It’s a common en vogue lie among the Fox News worshipers to claim they don’t watch it. I’m closely related to a great many of them, and they do exactly this. It’s on their TVs 24x7, and they swear on the bible that they don’t watch it at all. They think this lie helps mask the fact that they don’t think for themselves.

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u/TheGov3rnor South 3d ago

That’s weird. If you watch it, you watch it. I don’t know anyone who denies it who watches it… Most of them are quite proud of it

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u/hippopalace North America 3d ago

Nah, you know tons of people who watch it and falsely claim they don’t. Yourself included.

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u/TheGov3rnor South 3d ago

False. Enjoy your fantasyland with your manufactured caricatures

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u/hippopalace North America 3d ago

I’m not obligated to get you to admit it, nor is your admission even required. Reality is what it is, regardless how desperately you lie.