The Facts of Life: how to reach people who know nothing

This, from FiveThirtyEight’s Significant Digits, brings up the biggest problem this country seems to have: people who have been brainwashed know nothing about their brainwashers, and presumably don’t know they’ve been brainwashed.

54 percent

Percentage of Americans who have heard “nothing at all” about the “alt-right,” the white nationalist movement that gained prominence during Trump’s campaign for the presidency. And 30 percent of people who have heard “a lot” or “a little” about it aren’t sure what it stands for. [The Pew Research Center]

P.S. The proper term for white nationalists is Alt-Reich, not alt-right.

P.P.S. I’ve got no answer to the “how-to” in the title.

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