Funny

For as virtuosically incompetent as MAGA is, the Conservative Propaganda Machine is an incredibly effective entity, probably because it is operated by successful business people, and not politicians.

It has been growing steadily since it was conceived by Cheney and Ailes in the wake of the Watergate Scandal, and now it has matured into a force so effective, that it has millions of Americans literally living in an alternative reality. They no longer recognize the real world, and the real world has no conception of their perceived reality. We see them living in their bubble, and now they've even stolen the power, and think they can force their false reality onto the rest of us, but it isn't real, so it will NEVER work. Even though they are in power, we can still see that they are outside of reality.

Like Test_Tickles said, they've had 10 years for outside information to trickle in, and there is no way they haven't been even tangently exposed to outside information. I absolutely do not consume any rightwing or for that matter any 24hr news networks but bits of both sides still filter in.

That's sort of what I'm alluding to. It seems to me that these people are in essentially the reality version of a casino with a painted sky. It looks and feels like outside, it's just completely controlled by the people that own the casino and crafted entirely to keep the illusion up. They watch Fox, their friends might read Washington Post, their friend's friends watch whatever else. More and more media is being bought by Billionaires that have a vested interest in maintaining the status quo.

It feels like you're getting differing opinions because this guy reads this which is SLIGHTLY more moderate than that but overall it's so far more right from what things were like even 10 years ago that it doesn't really matter.

And people just don't notice.