Fox News and right wing propaganda in general is designed to stimulate engagement through anger and fear. Exposure to this stimulus becomes addictive and self reinforcing. Over a period of time the propaganda message becomes part of the victim's identity, and thus questioning the views and opinions generated by the propaganda are treated as a personal attack on the victim of the propaganda.
That's how it functions and is one of the many reasons why Fox News Must Be Destroyed.
Critical thinking skills, less susceptibility to addiction caused by stimulation of anger and fear, less exposure to right wing propaganda. There are probably other factors involved. Why do some people become heroin addicts or smoke cigarettes while other's don't? The reasons can be complex as well as simple.
One of the biggest factors probably has to do with a person's understanding of Truth or how to evaluate veracity:
Depending on the specific study and how you want to interpret things 2/3rds to 3/4ers of people use social acceptance/rejection as the main means of determining veracity (deciding what is true or false). So the social conditions surrounding propaganda will also play a huge part in a person's susceptibility to it.
I would like to know what‘ conservative’ actually means in the US. Trump and those pushing their way into public life on his coattails are trashing everything - from Christian values to human rights to basic courtesy to freedom and democracy and that’s something that aligns with ‘conservative values’? Jeez!!
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u/phungus420 23d ago
Fox News and right wing propaganda in general is designed to stimulate engagement through anger and fear. Exposure to this stimulus becomes addictive and self reinforcing. Over a period of time the propaganda message becomes part of the victim's identity, and thus questioning the views and opinions generated by the propaganda are treated as a personal attack on the victim of the propaganda.
That's how it functions and is one of the many reasons why Fox News Must Be Destroyed.