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really the youngin's trusting the gov...

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People are raised to confuse .gov authority with parental authority, god's authority ultimately

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The gov is the parent in this world. The other ones are just birthing people or sperm donors.

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While true, the generations that didn't grow up with the internet have far more trust in the news media. So boomers and gen xers may not trust the government as much as millennials but they do trust the news far more and that is in it's own way worse. I have yet to meet a boomer in real life that didn't form an opinion based entirely off of what they were told was true on the news. Like clockwork, whoever the news says is the enemy of the US is who they will think is the worst thing in the world at that time.

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Pre Obama it was illegal to lie in the news, the older generations grew up with factual news agencies and political slants were not tolerated.. With Obama's "gov propaganda is encuraged" EO (which is the biggest clue the Trump was not on our side becuase he didn't reverse it), the news was deemed entertainment and they could lie through thier teeth to us. They were and are paid handsomely for positively mentioning talking points in media, whether it is social or broadcast and the older generation has a hard time recognizing the fundamental change that has happened.