Sheer gullibility or barefaced lying? Take your pick

dets. 11, 2020 Estonian Life No. 50 2020

The US presidential elections are long over. No evidence of wide spread voter fraud has been uncovered. Yet some politicians in Estonia, the US and elsewhere persist in spreading lies and misinformation echoing the White House’s assault against reality.

It’s Mr. Trump vindictiveness that sufficiently intimidates US Congressmen to humiliate themselves by knowingly parroting lies. But why Estonian politicians? Do EKRE’s politicians take the White House’s claims at face value or are they spurred by some ego-inflating condition?

Knowing that their supporters will agree with them, at least in the open, is one of the reasons why current White house sycophants are emboldened to lie even when presented with irrefutable evidence to the contrary. Secondly, politicians and their followers, especially those who espouse far left-wing or far right-wing views live in a limited media and social bubble in which they all use the same sources that reinforce their views. For EKRE supporters it’s Uued Uudised (New News website) for ‘Trumpers’ it’s Fox News, Breitbart and others of the same ilk. This media bubble is solid in repelling conflicting viewpoints or facts from entry. The lies are so delicious they whet the appetite for more. The gullible soak them up like a sponge.

Laas Leivat, Toronto

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