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This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1399796
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1399796
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Heck, I knew a guy who joined a militia and became radicalized shortly after Clinton was elected.
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Maybe if government agencies didn’t assassinate Presidents and do other nefarious things like experiment on portions of the citizenry, and people could trust what their government told them, there wouldn’t need to be theories.
Especially when those theories, from time to time, are proven correct (see Snowden, NSA).
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Far, far too many Americans are intellectually incurious and/or willfully obtuse. This fact has been seized upon by a cult of personality (formerly a major political party) and is being exploited by an unscrupulous segment of societal carnivores to increase their personal power and wealth.
I’m not sure what can be done about it when they’ve convinced such a large segment of our population that up is down and wrong is right. And they’re determined to limit the voting franchise to only their robotic followers.
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See, I KNEW the moon landings were all fake!
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In response to this tidbit:
one-third of Republicans – 30% – agreed with the statement “true American patriots may have to resort to violence in order to save our country
Here adds another layer of stupidity on top of a steaming pile of the stuff. Save the country from what? Science? Good government? People not named Trump? Any reasonable pollster would ask the follow-up question to determine what needs to be saved.
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Pmurt NOW! Because WHY NOT?!?
Meh, everyone knows that your knowing that the moon landings were fake is fake! You’re a fake conspiracy theorist!
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Faked you out, though… 
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This stuff was always there and went on steroids when the somewhat dark-complexioned man attained the White House.
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Are you sure its through the fake hypothesis stage?
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Manchin speaking now on rules changes to pass voting rights bill. From what I’m hearing he’s not ruling out the former to pass the latter, and he’s emphasized the bedrock importance of voting rights and properly counting all votes.
Green shoots or hot air?
Both?
Harry Reid’s death weighing on him?
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Tell yourself whatever you need to, but we both know your fakery is fake, not so proud boy!
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I falsify all my fake results, conclusions, facts and factotums.
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As long as you have done the ground work, all’s good.
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Paul Krugman ends is column today on Republicans sabotage, which often contradicts itself, of America by opposing vaccines at the expense of their voters health and lives with:
"So none of this makes any sense — not, that is, unless you realize that Republican vaccine obstructionism isn’t about serving a coherent ideology, it was and is about the pursuit of power. A successful vaccination campaign would have been a win for the Biden administration, so it had to be undermined using any and every argument available.
Sure enough, the anti-vaccine strategy has worked politically. The persistence of Covid has helped keep the nation’s mood dark, which inevitably hurts the party that holds the White House — so Republicans who have done all they can to prevent an effective response to Covid have not hesitated, even for a moment, in blaming Biden for failing to end the pandemic.
And the success of destructive vaccine politics is itself deeply horrifying. It seems that utter cynicism, pursued even at the cost of your supporters’ lives, pays."
The entire article is at:
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Very true. That’s why it seems a fool’s errand to try to get the most deluded of our citizens to accept a complex science-based view of reality. It will never work. But the problem with the crazy beliefs of the far right is not that they’re crazy but rather that they are violent and lead to social disorder. So rather than trying to force them to become rational, it’s better to give them a new, more socially beneficial myth to believe in. Sort of like Plato’s idea of the Noble Lie in the Republic.
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i really thought people in this country valued the concept of peaceful, orderly transfer of power and competitive elections. I was just as wrong about that as I was about their ability to see through the most transparently phony candidate in American history…
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People do, just not enough people.
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True, and some of them went pretty nuts over the African-American gentleman who preceded him, too.
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