[user104658]

The major problem is that much of the US population is very inward-looking... A lot of people never leave their own STATE, in their entire lives, let alone the country and there is a large amount of ignorance and misunderstanding about the world in general. So basically the news can report pretty much anything and it'll be believed by the unquestioning ones. For example, that white people "can't go into Birmingham because it's 100% immigrants now!". Remember that one?

The scary part of course is that now, one of the gullible / unquestioning ones is the ****ing president.