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It is VITAL that you understand we got here because we allowed Fox News, Newsmax, Alex Jones, Brietbart and MANY MANY others to create a siege mentality in the right.
One of the most disturbing aspects of a siege mindset is a willingness to reflexively believe ANY claim against
One of the most disturbing aspects of a siege mindset is a willingness to reflexively believe ANY claim against
the perceived enemy that echoes or aligns with the established belief. Put simply, the right wing talk sphere trained its listeners to be willing to believe ANYTHING about “libs,” without the least requirement for there to be evidence to support it. It obliterated reasoning as
part of the analytical process, and supplanted it with instinct or suspicion.
THAT is why QAnon flourished. Because once people stopped needing any evidence whatsoever to believe the worst about an individual or the most outlandish conspiracy, total disconnection from reality
THAT is why QAnon flourished. Because once people stopped needing any evidence whatsoever to believe the worst about an individual or the most outlandish conspiracy, total disconnection from reality
was inevitable.
THAT is also why the right can believe that Democrats got together & convinced a bunch of people to commit suicide to make Trump look bad. That is also why they believe Democrats “rigged” elections, when it is ONLY Republicans who have as a central part of their
THAT is also why the right can believe that Democrats got together & convinced a bunch of people to commit suicide to make Trump look bad. That is also why they believe Democrats “rigged” elections, when it is ONLY Republicans who have as a central part of their
platform the suppression of Democratic votes, and when there is overwhelming evidence that Trump was helped into the WH by our enemies.
Our countrymen are projecting onto us, their own histrionic desperation. They are willing to do ANYTHING to retain power, and so they are
Our countrymen are projecting onto us, their own histrionic desperation. They are willing to do ANYTHING to retain power, and so they are
more than willing to believe we would do the same.
It is this FALSE belief that there is parity in our mindsets that leads the right to believe we too would cheat to win.
We WOULD NOT! We have NOT! And the absolutely derth of a micron of evidence makes the case.
It is this FALSE belief that there is parity in our mindsets that leads the right to believe we too would cheat to win.
We WOULD NOT! We have NOT! And the absolutely derth of a micron of evidence makes the case.
Do you honestly believe that if Dems orchestrated a nation-wide effort to rig the election, not a single Republican ANYWHERE would be able to produce a shred of reliable evidence in ANY court of law in ANY state?Think about that. Republicans are either VERY VERY bad investigators
or they are VERY VERY good liars!
And in this case, the lies fell upon ears primed to be willing to believe literally any demonization of the “libs.” They never needed evidence to believe it. And all of their talking heads know it. There’s is a fact-free universe.
And in this case, the lies fell upon ears primed to be willing to believe literally any demonization of the “libs.” They never needed evidence to believe it. And all of their talking heads know it. There’s is a fact-free universe.
And while Dems also believe bad and inexplicable things happened in the election, such as wildly implausible results in many Senate races, outcomes that defied every poll done, illogical & fantastical ballot splitting, we DO NOT expect our suspicions to be treated as facts worthy
of undermining an election result. We do not ask, let alone expect, that our suspicions be taken as gospel truth worthy of undoing certified election results. Because we still believe in evidence, we DO NOT expect those who share our concerns to have the right to trespass on
the rights of those who do not. THAT is the difference. We have NOT lost connection with the fact that in a diverse country, rules of evidence and reliability are a paramount to maintain order.
The right has long given up that notion. To marry-up their xenophobic belief that
The right has long given up that notion. To marry-up their xenophobic belief that
this country is somehow more theirs than anyone else’s, with the idiotic notion that their rejection of the need for proof should dominate our country and allow them to use their “truths” to overcome and trump our “facts.”
The right has a religion-level “belief” in “truths” that only people listening to the right sources know, and that will soon be “revealed” in a watershed event.
And that is why they are struggling now. The world in their mind is about to be confronted by reality and to
And that is why they are struggling now. The world in their mind is about to be confronted by reality and to
collapse from the weight of it. And it’s not going to be pretty.
The bigger problem, however, is ours. Because so long as we allow half the country to live in an alternate universe, our land will be ungovernable.
We need to take right wing media in hand. We can no longer
The bigger problem, however, is ours. Because so long as we allow half the country to live in an alternate universe, our land will be ungovernable.
We need to take right wing media in hand. We can no longer
allow media to sell lies as facts and call it “entertainment.” Changes are going to have to be made, which won’t be easy in a country so steeped in a tradition of free speech and in which the right to free speech is Constitutionally protected.
The Constitution does not
The Constitution does not
however protect profits from the distribution of free speech. And that is where we will need to turn our attentions in 2021.
