alt Hacker News> Wow are americans actually stupid enough to eat this bait?
Yes. That “bait” has been raised to the level of propaganda that people, of some age groups at least (e.g. boomers) have been exposed to their whole lives. It doesn’t help that the US is quite geographically isolated, so most people never get much first-hand experience of anything else.
I agree. But we also can't force people to expose themselves to the rest of the world. I fear it will take hardship to give people incentive to look elsewhere