[stadia42]

> If they said "this" person said "this" thing, as-long as they hate him, they'll instantly jump on believing and ridiculing.

This is such a perfect observation! My very intelligent and well-educated friends, most of them successful engineers in the Silicon Valley, behave exactly as you described. And it's not at all limited to the current political divisions in the US.

Why would seemingly smart people trust random posts on internet, as long as those posts confirm what they want to hear?