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Truth isn't Truth.... (Original Post) pbmus Aug 2018 OP
He actually said that? Kingofalldems Aug 2018 #1
Here's the thing Butterflylady Aug 2018 #2
Including tens of millions of our fellow Americans. Garrett78 Aug 2018 #3
Truth is whatever horse shit they can get tRumpers to swallow njhoneybadger Aug 2018 #4
He might be right. In TrumpWorld... dchill Aug 2018 #5

Butterflylady

(3,544 posts)
2. Here's the thing
Sun Aug 19, 2018, 03:38 PM
Aug 2018

The truth to them is not the truth that we know. To them it's totally different, its what their reality is telling them and we all know they live in a totally different reality then we do. It's simple.

Garrett78

(10,721 posts)
3. Including tens of millions of our fellow Americans.
Sun Aug 19, 2018, 03:50 PM
Aug 2018

As I posted back in late 2016 on the subject of reaching Trump voters:

It'd be one thing if most people were working from a set of agreed-upon facts (it doesn't help that we're living in an age of 24/7 infotainment with media personalities who say it's not their job to fact check). There would still be, of course, disagreement over causes for and appropriate responses to those facts. Maybe some persuading could take place. Or at least some reasonable compromising. But millions of people flat out deny facts while subscribing to patently false beliefs. Presenting them with facts has a tendency to backfire, as studies have made clear. The false beliefs become further ingrained. That's true across the political spectrum, but it's a matter of scale. While most everyone will cling to at least some false beliefs, there are those who simply live in an alternate reality.

dchill

(38,505 posts)
5. He might be right. In TrumpWorld...
Sun Aug 19, 2018, 04:26 PM
Aug 2018

Jobs aren't jobs. Winning isn't winning. And collusion isn't collusion!

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