edededed wrote:1. Almost everyone is biased.
2. Almost everyone believes that they are not biased.
3. Almost everyone happens to have the opinions of where they were raised.
#3 is the red flag - if this applies to you, too, you may want to consider if your opinions are truly your own. No need to be overly-critical of yourself - it is also a product of receiving only selective information (via friends, media, etc.).
Of course everyone is biased. But, that "bias" comes from many different factors. I am most biased by my education post-college.
As for your opinion about #3, I think that's BS--at least for me. For example, my parents are extremely conservative and religious, as are most of our family friends. So are most of my siblings, especially the ones who stayed in the same state I grew up in. I, myself, had fairly conservative political views for quite a while and also worked in a conservative environment (construction) for over a decade.
I have also read a fair amount of studies that point out a generational swing--kids rebel against their parents and often hold the opposite view, and this gets balanced out by the next generation. This was true for areas with higher levels of education, as critical thinking seemed to lead to more skepticism of various viewpoints presented from the canon of authority. It was less so for less educated swaths of America.
Still, your point is well taken, Ed. We are all biased. That is one of the reasons that vetting sources is so important. Not the difference between the reaction to a false story coming out from a supposed liberal news outlet (suspension without pay) versus Fox news or Breitbart (accolades).
Anyway, my point stands. The coverage by the most popular news outlet in America, Fox News, has been laughably favorable to Trump, so these claims are ridiculous. Imagine if Obama had done or said half the things Trump has...The White House would have been burned to the ground.