| Dulfite said: I just don't get how so many Russians believ their government about every little thing. As Americans, we are basically conditioned at birth to mistrust our government and media, rightfully so. Granted, we swing back and forth from one party to the next, so at all times 40% of the country is angry, 40% is happy, and 20% would just wish everyone would calm down. |
It's no different really.
You have many people in the USA that blindly believe either the right or left propaganda without doing their own research. The pandemic was a disaster in the USA as a result. The difference is, in the USA the two parties condition their followers to mistrust everything the other party does/says, while blindly following their ideas. In Russia the two parties happen to be, Putin and the rest of the world.
Plus Americans are just as conditioned to mistrust any non American / non English news outlets. Yet take Fox News or CNN at face value. The internet only made things worse by providing echo chambers, making it easy to ignore any opposing views / information.
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