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I don't know if you've tried this, but try pointing out some obvious falsehood that we're supposed to believe to someone who is willing to engage you in conversation. They almost always say, "Well, the truth lies somewhere in between," which you can read as "I am going to sum up all of the expressed opinions I hear, and believe their rough consensus." This is why FOX News has more than one correspondent. If 8 of them say universal health care is a fascist doctrine, a viewer has to hear that's not true from 8 separate people before she or he even has a shot.
But, really, I'm just posting an XKCD strip, because it illustrated this problem so well.
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I wonder if Fox employs Zeno's paradox to slowly sway people to their side while always claiming to be "fair and balanced"
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