Well, I think Doug grew up among a peer group who espoused a certain set of social values...those most associated with individuals like John Wayne or Ronald Reagan...and he has never altered that original set of values in the passage of the years or had the slightest doubt about them, and he reads and listens to material that endorses that set of values, and therefore he feels continually reinforced in them.

It's a self-perpetuating cycle. That doesn't mean he's stupid, it means he's working from a different set of basic assumptions.

He believes what most of us here would laugh at in astonishment. But that's normality for Doug.

In Canada he would represent a very, very small minority of public opinion. Canadians who are opposed to our single payer universal health plan are as rare as hen's teeth, although Fox TV has probably managed to find one or two such demented people to put on their news programs at some time. This would be sort of like finding the one or two non-Muslim White Americans who want to join Al Queda and bomb the USA. Not easy.......but if you look really F-in hard, you can probably find them. ;-) And that's what propaganda saps like Fox do, at the behest of the American health insurance industry, who will pay lotsa money to someone like that if they can possibly find them, so they can present false and misleading testimony on Fox News.