that's not necessarilly true...when i joined this site, i had some very magat-ish ideas, that i had never really thought through...i checked out the politics forum and thought a lot of people were full of shit, but a few members asked me questions that i couldn't answer, and i don't like standing like a fool without any answers to back me up, so i started reading...at first i didn't believe half of what i read (i still don't, but it's not the same half). i started to look for news sources that i could use to verify other site, unrelated sites posting the same stories is usually a good sign that they are real, or at least as close as you're going to get...once i started doing that, it quickly became apparent that most of the things i "felt" were right, were designed to make me feel that way, to make me think how someone else wanted me to think...in short, i woke up. i quit trusting either side to tell me the "truth" and started trying to verify everything i read...and it has become apparent that while democrats will sometimes lie, sometimes try to misdirect, most of the time, they're telling the truth...and republicans are the exact opposite, they lie like they breath, freely, naturally, unthinkingly...they were bad before trump, after, they're blatant and sloppy about it.
so, while a real troll probably isn't going to be influenced, there are some people who are just confused and uninformed...those are the ones i hope read enough here to get them to read some real news, to see at least a little of the truth