Whatever works, eh?

-- Mal

It makes me wonder if the American voter is really that stupid or if Fox News is even more effective than we thought. The reelections of Brownback, Walker, and Scott are very VERY scary.
How do you even reason with stupid and suicidal against a well oiled propaganda machine?

vote out of fear & anger - Fox News, Rush, Hannity, Ingraham, Savage, etc - are there to keep the "base" fearful and/or angry. I don't think they're necessarily stupid, but it's hard to think when you're living in a constant state of fear and/or anger.

Obama (Clinton) is going to take your guns
Obama (Clinton) is going to set up abortion mills on every street corner
Obama (Clinton) is surrendering to ISIS/Al Qaeda/Putin/North Korea

Many years back, Bill Clinton correctly said something like, "When people take time to think, they vote Democratic." I think much of the right wing echo chamber is to keep their base in that constant state of fear and/or anger so they don't take time to think rationally.

Thinking about "1984", it seems to fit.

millions of them, to get them to vote? We know X are always going to vote con and Y are always going to vote dem, so what about that massive amount that dont vote?

What has to happen?

Sister die from back alley abortion after Roe overturned?

Brother die from lack of medicaid from cancer?

Friend robs a bank and goes to prison for 20 years because he was out of options to survive?

Parent is forced to choose between prescriptions and heat?

I dont know.

it's something new - or, something recycled with a new twist (Benghazi!!)

They all kinda blur together after awhile.

Invade Texas? Come on???

Where their beliefs don't match what they see in the world.

They live within a homogenized hermetically sealed information bubble. They are victims of their own belief system.

That really goes for most of us also.

While I think I have a reasonably broad list of source material I read, I could easily find myself going to resources that are supportive of my POV rather than those that argue against me and my "beliefs".

What if there really is an Abrahamic (male) God that smites all non-believers? What if that god listens mainly to Pentacostals or ISIS-tending stoopids?

What if Obama has really mobilized the National Guard and the Secret Service <grin> to invade Texas and make everybody stock up on Doritos and coke?

What if there really is a secret society of 0.01%'ers that are trying to take over the world?
(Oh, wait.)

That's the answer.

Now, the question.......

...was the 1999 conspiracy theory. Now it's "keep". Get your oppressive decades right!!!!

When they have any of their assumptions challenged.

So they rage. This is why the O'Reilly types just out shout anyone who disagrees with them.

We have our share of bought off Dempartiers in our party that have sold out to Big Money! They try to convince us that things like the TPP, Fracking, and Wall Street banks are in our best interests. Watch how many won't support the bills Bernie is filing! There are a lot of DINO's out there.

Many Dems had to go for the money or else there would be no Dems at all in the House and Senate. That's the hand they were dealt and the reality of how money must be there or forget about running. As a woman, I'll take a Dem any day. I know enlightened men who say the same thing. So change the system! Don't attack those who had no choice, but to work within it.

The cheese log will, after all, feed more people by itself than would the entire GOP ..

Publicly Funded Elections!
Welcome to DU!

My granddaughter caught her first fish of 2015 yesterday at her birthday party.

and they are right wing Republicans. Everyone else has given up and bought the "they're all they same" crap.

With all the voting fuckery going on, I am honestly in fear of a Republican majority government getting elected in 2016, and it will be the last nail in our coffin. Good bye Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, SNAP, education. unemployment insurance. It's time for a full throttle, free market, trickle down mess.

Ok, enough. I made a promise to be less cynical.

The bastards have the Judicial and Legislative branches already.

Pie in the sky when you die, so don't question your place here. Just make sure the Negroes and Meskins don't get anything either. After all if your lot improves, they'd get the same thing and we can't have that now, can we, brothers and sisters?

Greed, stupidity and religion are going to be the death of this country.

THEY ARE TEABAGGING PIECES OF SHIT

Both words are designed to remind people that there is almost no difference (if any) between Teabaggers and Repubs.

The second adds a diminutive aspect so as to further insult them.

And lots of eedjits buy that line of crap. Not many here, but it still bears reminding for the wider Internet.