I recently saw a documentary on the LDS Fundamentalist cult group that has over 10,000 members around the nation.  The group is frequently monitored by the Southern Poverty Law Center.  Its leader is in prison yet still controls the actions of followers through communication to his leadership. Warren Jeffs is the head of the group currently serving a life sentence in a Texas prison.  He was convicted of sexual assault of children.  He is famous for taking up young girls and forcing them to be his wife.    In the documentary I noted cult members suspiciously peering at film makers and hiding behind fences.  It was obvious they refused to adhere to any source of information that did not come from their cult leadership.  Experts fear the followers will do anything Jeffs instructs them to do.
     Some in the Religious Right are pushing their followers into a cult-like version of the world.  They do not accept any information that comes from the tainted pens of those outside their own close circle.  You cannot trust any survey, opinion, or research, that does not come from the select group who gives out the facts.
     A recent John Birch Society email gives further evidence to the problem.  The email suggested insiders, mostly from the Council on Foreign Relations, control the election and are conspiring to unseat Donald Trump's Presidential bid.   This goes on because behind the scenes diabolical evil groups control the world and you cannot trust the government, media, or politicians to tell you the truth.  This secretive group is in control, not the government, media, or politicians.
      I ran across this problem in a local editor's opinion on the election.  The newspaper reported that Secretary Clinton should be held responsible for her crimes but the current President will not prosecute here and is breaking the law by refusal.  He compared the nation to the old Soviet Union stating the government has total control of the media which is state run.  The national media has been instructed to  attack Republican candidates.  The media even goes so far as to lie insinuating GOP leaders have been connected to racist, sexist and xenophobic concepts.    This brainwashing comes directly from the Democratic Party seeking to hold power by controlling votes.  The Democratic Party registers illegal immigrant voters who are taking away the votes of real citizens.  "....the more illegal the better."  Swing states will have illegal voters flood into the state to defeat the GOP candidate.  American votes are thus canceled out by people who are not citizens.
     The fact that there is little if any evidence that anything the author said can be verified is not my interest.  The interesting item is that you cannot trust anything that comes from the press.  Thus from the Wall Street Journal, New York Times,  Yahoo News and etc, none of them will give you the truth because they are controlled by others.
     Times in my life I have dealt with people who thought I was brainwashed because of where I went to college or seminary.  I sought to share new information with these types and often found they were not open to any other view that did not come down from the official version of truth.  I have noted that David Barton, Bill Gothard , and a host of others, have followers with these tendencies.  Recalling stories about deprogramming cult members, I noted that patience, long periods of time, and close friends are required to gain the trust of cult members.  It is no easy task.  
    Certainly not all Religious Right members are like this.  Some, unfortunately are.   It does not serve our Democracy well to create subcultures of peoples who do not trust our government at all.   One solution is to give these peoples access to government and elected officials and this allows them to have personal contact with people in government, or for that matter the press to make government and news personal.   Jefferson never believed the yeoman always got it right in electing leaders.  He did believe it was the right thing for them to do.  If people feel they have a voice, tensions are erased.  It they do not feel they have a voice, tensions are increased.