I thought I understood cognitive dissonance. But people's willingness to dismiss peer review scientists and physicians with decades of non-political focus on their field in favor of some yahoo talking head is just mind boggling to me. It seems there is no one who could wake people up. It's always kill the messenger. But JFK Jr would be a game changer. Can you imagine? I really want it to be true. Doesn't mean it is. But I REALLY want it to be true.
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It would take something of that magnitude to wake the sheeple from their slumber. Like you, I have been amazed at how totally programmed people are to our misinformation system. As long as a news reader looks official, their information is considered factual regardless of the past proven lies, misinformation or outright propaganda.
Peoples tribal connections to the right/left paradigm is stronger than their will for truth or facts. I try to be forgiving as I also was a prisoner of the misinformation matrix for most of my life.