I just saw an MSNBC report, Jacob Soboroff who is their LA-based correspondent I think it was (Let me know if you saw it).
He was interviewing people in the home district of Devin Nunes. He couldn't manage to find anyone who knew much about the Russia probe. Several women in their mid-20's said it was fake news.
Nobody seemed to care about Russia. Most of them hadn’t much idea who Nunes is or what he’s been doing. These are the intellectually incurious vacuous people who don't have a skeptical bone in their heads, also known as Trump's base. Then I got to thinking that these are the young adults raised in families where mom fed them Sugar Frosted Flakes because they were all that the kids would eat because Tony the Tiger said they were great.
My hunch is that they never learned critical thinking, not at home and not in school.
After all, what rational parent would believe that a sugary cereal was actually a healthy breakfast? I’ve often said that critical thinking teaching should begin in preschool and that the lessons would start off with the teacher using television commercials as examples. Such teaching theoretically could make up for kids having parents who believed that lottery tickets were an investment and that smoking Marlboros made you a real cowboy.
Not much of a story for Daily Kos here, at least not until I decided to do an image search for Tony the Tiger just to put on my blog. And there it was on the first page:
The term snowflake has a new definition thanks to the Republicans:
Those words fell out of use while snowflake settled into the lexicon with its hushed and lovely literal meaning. In recent times, though, the word has been causing a ruckus. It's developed a new and decidedly less pleasant use as a disparaging term for a person who is seen as overly sensitive and fragile. In the lead-up to the 2016 U.S. elections it was lobbed especially fiercely by those on the right side of the political spectrum at those on the left. And the snowball fight has continued since. Merriam-Websters
I propose another term to describe those who blindly support our reality television president:
Monday, Feb 19, 2018 · 8:57:52 PM +00:00 · HalBrown
Jacob Soboroff interviews Trump and Nunes supporters who barely pay attention to the news, and think if it is against Trump it is fake news. The even told Soboroff that his station, MSNBC, was fake news.
Above with The California prosecutor Andrew Janz who is running against Devon Nunes in 2018. He has a new campaign ad out using his ridiculous "secret memo" against him.
This is one of his billboards: