it is very real, all of it
that said, you have to consider especially elderly people who have lived 70 or 80 years getting all of their core beliefs from the brainwashing media on the tele
it's a big step for them to question their trusted source of information
not true for younger people, but unfortunately younger people are now being indoctrinated in the schools and universities, and in many cases, in the workplace
the people in between, roughly between ages 35 to 65, are the ones who escaped major brainwashing assault in our educational system and also did not buy the media narrative on the tele hook, line and sinker