What a sad red herring this is. How many such people do you think there are? Whose sole source of information is the Bible? Is this your 35-50%? Do you really think this is a large enough population size that it's even worth bringing? If so, again, I'd suggest you aren't as clear a thinker as you imagine you are.
All you're doing here is making perfect the enemy of good. Nobody is expecting anybody to act as "flawlessly rational human beings." None of us can do this. Including you. But what's disingenuous is acting like this is what I'm suggesting.
We all have biases, we all make assumptions, we all get things wrong. This is fine. This has always been the case. The reason I highlight information is that there has never been a time in human history where we've had access to so much of it, where sensationalising it has carried such high financial rewards, and where information has become so siloed off by algorithms that you and I can, in good-faith, believe completely contradictory things.
The danger in what you're saying is that you don't seem to appreciate that you might be the one who is wrong. You look at that 35-50% and see people who are simply irredeemable. Who "we" need to get to think the right way. But the fact is, neither Fox News nor PBS is telling the truth. They both bend narratives to play to their audiences.
The smart thing to do is to watch both (or at least to watch both Left and Right wing news sources, Fox News is hard to stomach), not only so that you have a better understanding of where "the other side" is coming from, but also because they each cherry-pick their stories and their talking points to convince you of a certain point of view.
What we should want for our children is to teach them how to think. Not what to think. Everybody on every side of every debate thinks they're right. They all think their side are the good guys. It's only by remembering that this is almost 100% of the time a simplistic way to look at the world, and doing the hard work of thinking and talking to each other, that we can figure out whether we are. This is far from a perfect system, but every other option is worse.
