You don't give people enough credit. Yes, there's a lot of gaslighting and propaganda, like cherry picking favorable economic statistics (as here), but people g

You don't give people enough credit. Yes, there's a lot of gaslighting and propaganda, like cherry picking favorable economic statistics (as here), but people generally see through it. Interestingly, we also see both recency bias and confirmation bias here as well. This very recent statistic confirms what some people would like to believe.