What you described is active use of your cognitive abilities.  What you must understand and accept is a huge portion of our population (most prevelant in minorities, yet also including 15% of the white population) posess an IQ lower than 85, making logically reasoning based in fact gathered literally impossible.  In short, they only know what they are told. This is why the Mockingbird is so deathly effect at controlling the masses.  The demographic that votes Democrat is literally unable to critically think. Make no mistake, you are surrounded by the enemy and logic alone will never be enough to red pill them.