The Republicans have all turned their backs to (reality?) everyone else and have closed ranks like a flock of penguins huddling against the cold.
GOP – Backs to reality
Suddenly, one respected member of the group will say something that resonates with them, no matter if it was just made up, then they repeat the thing around and around the group.
They nod and self-legitimize that position as if it were true, making it impossible for them to consider anything else (the actual truth). Then, feeling threatened, they quickly offer condemnation to anything that doesn’t fit that viewpoint. The opposite view from that made up thing is ofttimes invented, too, in an attempt to tell the world “what liberals think”.
There’s no way to break this circle. The right have erected a huge barrier around themselves called FOX. FOX will keep the made up thing going. There’s nothing that can be done as long as they have a powerful mouthpiece like FOX to, as George Bush put it, “propel the propaganda”.
What caused all this? Actually it was the right’s long war on the media. They lambasted the media as being “liberal” for so long and so often that the media lost its ability as a respected mediator that told us what was true. Until FOX can be convinced to actually become “fair and balanced” then there is no hope.
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