> But conservative/republican's belief in the rugged individual, and belief that companies are individuals, then all manor of dog-eat-dog brutal competition is

> But conservative/republican's belief in the rugged individual, and belief that companies are individuals, then all manor of dog-eat-dog brutal competition is ok, even if Big Corp gets big enough to re-write laws to remove the ability to compete. A "fact" one often reads on social media. I wonder: could being exposed to the same idea repeatedly have any effect on individual perceptions of whether it is true? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusory_truth_effect https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusory_truth_effect Another popular truth online is that democracy is our most sacred institution, yet it isn't it democracy that brings us this?