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Cyrano

(15,077 posts) Wed Jun 20, 2018, 05:28 PM Jun 2018

Facts don't matter

About a third of Americans believe the lies/shit they're being fed by Fox "news," et al.

To be fair, it's not about being crazy. It's about being uninformed/misinformed.

It's about not grasping reality.

It's about believing the lies and propaganda being spewed by Trump and his enablers, through TV, hate radio, and online sewer sites.

It's about not reading, not understanding, not comprehending the concept of what America is supposed to be about.

It's about having Trump, the Republican Party, and conservative judges perverting the meaning of what America is.

It's about wingnuts convincing people that realty doesn't matter.

Somehow, someway, we need to forever bury this insanity.

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Facts don't matter (Original Post) Cyrano Jun 2018 OP

It's about propaganda FiveGoodMen Jun 2018 #1

It's about mysogynistic, racist, xenophobic Phoenix61 Jun 2018 #2

Yes. And it's about ignorance. Cyrano Jun 2018 #3

FiveGoodMen

(20,018 posts)

1. It's about propaganda

Reply to Cyrano (Original post)

Wed Jun 20, 2018, 05:32 PM

Jun 2018

Much of it from Fox & Hate Radio, but a lot of it from the very leaders who are supposed to promote love and kindness and decency.

From the guys who are believed to be everyone's guide to heaven.

It's the churches that teach people to feel proud and happy and safe when they stare reality in the face and deny that it's there.

Phoenix61

(17,027 posts)

2. It's about mysogynistic, racist, xenophobic

Reply to Cyrano (Original post)

Wed Jun 20, 2018, 05:37 PM

Jun 2018

assholes being pandered to by greedy, manipulative, shits who sold their souls a long time ago.

Cyrano

(15,077 posts)

3. Yes. And it's about ignorance.

Reply to Phoenix61 (Reply #2)

Wed Jun 20, 2018, 06:03 PM

Jun 2018

It's about people who grew up being told that black people, brown people, red people, yellow people, Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, Shintoists, agnostics, atheists, and all others who don't unconditionally worship their specific version of Jeezus, are less than human.

And it's about those who believe they are being threatened by "The Other."

It's always been about ignorance, fear, blind prejudice and outright hatred. And it always will be.

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