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Coyotl

(15,262 posts)
Fri Oct 25, 2013, 04:33 PM Oct 2013

The Tea Party: a big help to Democrats, but not to America.

http://elections.huffingtonpost.com/pollster/2014-national-house-race

2014 National House Race
Pollster Trend
Democrat 46.2%
Republican 39.0%


http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/10/23/1250076/-This-Is-the-Tea-Party-s-Gift-to-Democrats

It occurs to me that one of the other things that is benefiting the Dems is the Faux Reality Bubble created by Fox channel.
Nothing recently illustrates this as well as the unpopularity of the shutdown, except, of course, listening to those living inside the bubble.
The Daily Show's Racist North Carolina Republican's interview is a great example. Don Yelton doesn't realize his reality is faux-based.

A lot of hairy, airy, fairy stuff gets passes around by new agers adhering to individuated realities.
They have nothing on the twisted results of sustained propaganda reinforcing fully-altered group logic.
Alice knew she drank the tea, but the Fox tea drinkers today really think their hallucination is reality.

This is a real problem for a nation trying to move forward and carry on business.
We need a way to burst the bubble ASAP. The election of 2014 isn't soon enough.







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