Which is why you don’t present it as contradictory, you package it in a manner libs are used to receiving it. There are many ways in which we unconsciously judge something as truthful. Storytelling is basically the art of lying in a manner that is congruent to a person’s worldview. That’s what the Call to Adventure/Refusal of the Hero’s Journey is after all, it’s introducing a world that is familiar to the story’s consumer (whether it conforms to reality is irrelevant, what matters is it conforms to what the consumer is expecting) and then whisking them away to a fantastical world in a congruent manner where you no longer have to follow the rules of the “real” world. There are many ways, however, to appeal to the consumers familiarity, some times it’s tropes, some times it’s aesthetics, the point is to mimic the FEEL while feeding them truthful information.

I mean really, you’re here, I know damn well you’ve seen libs flip their views on a dime simply because corporate media shifted the narrative. Some people they lose, but most people go right along with it. Because the information is not what they’re judging, it’s the packaging. The news media are the trusted source through years of repetition and social proof, the information glides right in the brain holes as long as their feelings towards the news media remains untarnished.

What’s the line? Libs only understand tone, not words? Same principle. It’s about ticking off enough of their boxes of expectation that they never have a reason to question what they’re being told in the first place.