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.
還記得早年吃糧票時代的中國, 我們讀的都是“美國人民生活在水深火熱中”嗎?