Rich Logis, a former voter for former President Trump, appeared in a video message broadcast to the Democratic National Convention on Monday night to say that the COVID-19 pandemic showed him how Trump was “lying about pretty much everything.”
“I believed Trump,” he said. “When the pandemic hit, we needed leadership, but we were given almost nothing. It was a major betrayal to the country.”
Logis described himself as a “full-fledged member of MAGA” and encouraged fellow voters that there was still time to change their minds about whom to cast a ballot for in November.
“You are not immune to being convinced by something.”
Nobody should be immune to that. What they should be able to do is distinguish accurate propaganda from bullshit.
That’s not as simple as you might think. You’d be surprised what has been made into “common knowledge”.
It could be simpler than what it is, but teaching critical thinking is very low priority, especially in the US.