People like your mom sicken me. Not because they're ignorant. With the media what it is, you can't help what you don't know if you're not aware that they're lying to you. The problem is when they're told they're being lied to and are given irrefutable evidence of those lies, yet they choose to reject the truth and continue to believe them anyway.

I don't know whether it's an ego thing or they're just that stupid, but rejecting the truth even when it would be immensely more beneficial to accept it than to keep believing the lie is beyond fucked up and I find people like that to be contemptible.