Urban, not rural and what Oliver observed hits a home run. I left KS in '82 as a 19 year old on my way to USAF basic training. I can never ever go back and live there. I have seen, witnessed and experienced way too much.
I occasionally talk with a few family members and friends from long ago. I changed, they did not. I started paying attention long, long ago and saw the turn that was happening due to AM hate radio and then the scourge of fox news. I remember reading about this several years back, how if you keep a barrage of info blasting people they don't have time to rationalize what they have heard and you can keep them on the perpetual fight side of fight or flight. Infotainment overload, then you can feed them any line of BS you want them to believe and they will.
I wish I had a solution.....
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