people who do know it is a lie but they choose to repeat the lie and choose to live in that alternative reality? well your exactly right. there is a tendency to think this is somehow based on education or experience or anything else. and it is not whether you went to college or where you went to college that is the most likely predictor, it is whether you consumer right-wing media. you re more likely to bring conspiracy theories about vaccines and elections. that is the problem in this country. is that we have a very well funded, very aggressive operation that is spreading these lies for profit. and political gain. and it is incredibly dangerous. there are a lot of people who know better, particularly a lot of republicans on capitol hill, but there are also a lot who believe it, whose brains have been pickled by this. that is what is so scary. it is not a grift and people are controlling the levers of powner this country. it is pretty shocking. i want to ask you about sol
the problem around this is getting worse every single day. the right-wing media advantage is so much more powerful. it is getting bigger. it is flourishing. yes. mast afta sized. that is a perfect metaphor for what we re dealing with. and what we have to do is radically rethink how we communicate. everyone has a role to play here. democrats have to be more aggressive. we have to invest in building up our own mega phone to compete with republicans. that doesn t mean we build our own fox news but we have to invest in progressive outlets. a lot of people in the media have to think about how they deal with people who lie for a living and a social media have a responsibility this is where congress has to step in to think about how we regulate these algorithms that are pushing this disinformation nor profit. there was hope that some of