Many people don't think critically. Because thinking is an energy-consuming difficult task, people accept the corrupted "legacy" media's brainwashing propaganda/lies as the "TRUTH""FACT". That is the deadly problem for real democracy in any society. It's like what happened in a communist country.
还记得早年吃粮票时代的中国, 我们读的都是“美国人民生活在水深火热中”吗?