No way, dude, I know people, particularly older people, who came from an era in which the news at least somewhat attempted to relay facts, despite doing it in a biased way. Some of these people literally have no clue about a lot of the stuff that we knew week one. No clue as in never even having heard of the arguments against this stuff.

Definitely not excusing it as it's part of what brought our country to this point and it's a bad thing, but there's not necessarily a nefarious element in them. It's in the information controllers and authority figures that lead them to that state.