[majormajor]

Everybody there has been fed bullshit by the media - talk radio, Fox News commentators, etc - for decades. They eat it up.

Big chunks of the media decided a long time ago that they could make money by just pandering to angry people, and here we are.

[ethbr0]

> Big chunks of the media decided a long time ago that they could make money by just pandering to angry people

And then social media decided to cut out the cost of producing content, and just put angry people in a cage together.

[jandrese]

In the news it turns out that lies are more profitable than the truth, and the market has spoken.