Right Wing Crazy Talk Is Destroying Intelligence In America

[GoLeft TV]

Alex Jones’ conspiracy theories may seem like little more than crazy talk, but his followers are willing to take up arms based on his on-air tirades about lizard people and government takeovers.

Ring of Fire’s Mike Papantonio and Farron Cousins explain the dangers of people like Jones and the threat they pose to US citizens.

[Voice for Peace]

1. and he's not the only one.

My conservative ? acquaintance believes Limbaugh is just an entertainer..
doesn't recognize the "influence." Oh and also believes all sorts of
insane stuff, heard on the radio, coincidentally.

[project_bluebook]

2. Those who listen aren't intelligent to begin with

they just crave anything that can fill that empty space between their ears. BS Jones is the only junk food they can digest.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

3. I'm going out for meal worms, anyone else want some?

How about a mouse?

[Moostache]

4. I liked it better when "teh cray-cray" was limited to National Inquirer...(n/t)

[ladjf]

5. I don't believe that right wing crazy talk is the source of the lowering IQ in America.

It's a symptom. Having said that I must admit that I have no scientific idea about the cause of lowered IQ.

There are so many possibilities that I don't know where to begin. It could be caused by environmental problems, the rising influence of Dominions religious groups, genetic degeneration as people of low IQ choose to mate with other low IQ people, or host of other possibilities.

The number one priority for the scientific community should be to study this problem. It may simply be the worst problem facing the human race.

[The CCC]

6. I don't believe that right wing crazy talk is the source of the lowering IQ in America.

You don't have to have a low IQ to be bat shit crazy.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

9. It fits corporate/politcal/religious needs to dumb down the populace.

People who think and know the facts generally don't like the advertisers who pull the wool over the eyes of the sheeple who eat up simplistic solutions the same way they eat Frito Lays.

Likewise, it is easier to hoodwink sheeple voters into supporting the corporate anti-science climate-denying agenda.

Evangelical creationist megachurchmen (almost all men) benefit when people are foxed into denying evolution.

Thus we have an epidemic of teach-to-the-test rather than teaching critical logical thinking.

[ladjf]

10. Good points. nt

[valerief]

7. RW radio turned my brother's brain to mush. I wish it had been

drugs instead. At least, that I could understand.

[Lagom]

8. Jones is hated by many in the mainstream, corporate Right, Neo-Con Right and Far Right racialists

I despise Jones for many, many, many reasons, but try posting anything he says on any Republican site, from a general, conservative one, to the moonbats on Free republic, all the way to the Aryan Nation people on Stormfront and you will attacked and banned fairly quickly.

He is against what he calls the "Left-Right false paradigm", and to conflate him with a different type of stooge like Limbaugh (often ripped to shreds by Jones himself) is not accurate. He also does not trumpet then insane David Icke theory of reptilian overlords. There are many issues of overlap from both the Left and the Right (in all their flavours) that he agrees with many more that he opposes.

That all said, he does cater to a huge audience, and many of these listeners are indeed bat-shit crazy. My main problem with the video is that in order to effectively expose the dangers of Jones, you have to be accurate in your criticisms, or else you instantly lose credibility and simply add to myriad numbers of his followers' broadbush paranoia.