To the people who watch these sources they believe its legitimate, real and true.
One year after leaving California, my mother was explaining to me – based on some selfie video made by two Christians sitting in their car, claiming they had visited San Francisco – that California was now a hotbed for crime and violent death.
It’s not like they suddenly changed their story. For decades now, conservative vloggers and bloggers and “news” networks have been screaming about how California was a post-apocalyptic wasteland and millions of refugees were fleeing the state. She just… tuned it out while she was living in the proverbial horse’s mouth, and then started trusting them the second the first-hand evidence was (I am not exaggerating here. She is now in the next state over.) two hours in her rear-view mirror.
One year after leaving California, my mother was explaining to me – based on some selfie video made by two Christians sitting in their car, claiming they had visited San Francisco – that California was now a hotbed for crime and violent death.
It’s not like they suddenly changed their story. For decades now, conservative vloggers and bloggers and “news” networks have been screaming about how California was a post-apocalyptic wasteland and millions of refugees were fleeing the state. She just… tuned it out while she was living in the proverbial horse’s mouth, and then started trusting them the second the first-hand evidence was (I am not exaggerating here. She is now in the next state over.) two hours in her rear-view mirror.