So what can we gather from this experiment? One thing we all already knew; fake news is alive and well and permeates the media. The media is, as we all know, left leaning in most cases. Think back to 2016. Until literally days before the election, the polls all told us that Hillary held a comfortable double digit lead. Why? Because they knew she didn’t! So they tried to bury us with a sense of futility. They wanted Americans to assume their votes didn’t matter..... so they wouldn’t vote!
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There’s actually a name for that. Psycho-Social Manipulation Via Pseudo-Demographics.
The objective is to instill a sense of futility as pointed out, but also to trigger the herd instinct and make those susceptible to want to be part of the predicted winning herd.
Yes, but it boomeranged on them! All Hillary’s supporters believed the hype and didn’t feel it was necessary for them to go vote. On Trump’s side it made people work like their lives depended on it. If the media still had control of the American people there would be no President Donald Trump.