Yes you are right to say people are referring to things portrayed as bad but I dont know why people given up critical thinking to a democratically elected representative. Democracy seems to be the ultimate con trick besides Royalty and Religion. The latter two were enough and now we have govt's taking 3rd place, but another way to look at it is its convenient for Royalty and Religion to let Govt exist as it takes some slack and responsibility off of them.
They don’t realize they are. From many peoples perception of their own thinking (meta cognition) whatever’s they do to cognitively engage with an input is critical thinking. If you give them information they construct meaning from it. If that information is facts, it’s facts. If it’s someone else’s conclusion or interpretation, it still gets treated as information received.
