This is the mechanism employed by the Main Stream Media (MSM). Have various news services say exactly the same thing over and over, using the same catch-phrases and out-of-context soundbites, until the public is indoctrinated. This is how we get supporters who have no opinion of their own and can only parrot the sentiments they have been fed.
HOWEVER, there is an easy way to counter this on a broad scale basis.
Step 1) Ask the person who repeats an opinion that is obviously insane where they got the information from that they base their “opinion” on. [Be prepared to repeat your question, possibly several times, because they will probably make noises that sound like they are answering when they in fact have not actually answered the question that was asked].
Properly done this step will produce the result that you and they and anyone now listening in on your conversation will realize that the opinion was not formulated by the person you are speaking to but by MSM.
Step 2) Step 1 will have shown that there was no factual basis for their opinion so ask them what evidence of their claims they have personally seen. [Again, be prepared to ask your question again and again if the person you are speaking to doesn’t actually answer the question you asked].
There will probably be none. This step reminds the other person that they too long ago made the same decision but have forgotten.
Step 3) Say something like this, “Several years ago I decided that there were two groups that in general I couldn’t trust to tell the truth: politicians and MSM. So I started examining some of the things that MSM was saying and I found that they often had no basis in fact and/or all used the same catch-phrases and/or took sound bites out of context and claimed the speaker meant something that they didn’t. But the thing I noticed most was, they were all trying to get me to accept their opinion”.
Step 4) Give a simple example. “For example, lots of people say that Trump is racist. But I have actually watched several videos in which black and or Hispanic celebrities say that they have been a personal friend of Trump for many years and did people really believe that they would say that if he was racist?” or “Do you know that I can’t find anything that actually says that the Covid-19 virus has been isolated. Imagine that, for a whole year the world has been in lockdown over a virus that they can’t even find!”
Step 5) Shut up and/or change the subject because you are not there to make them wrong. You are their to help them, or those listening on, to start thinking for themselves. So let them do that, for themselves.
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