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begin_within (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-01-05 10:44 AM Original message |
Why do so many people buy into the right-wing bullshit? |
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lateo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-01-05 10:45 AM Response to Original message |
1. Because the media presents it as fact. |
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jobycom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-01-05 10:46 AM Response to Reply #1 |
4. That's word for word exactly what I was going to post. |
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bearfan454 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-01-05 10:50 AM Response to Reply #1 |
10. I truly believe that Democrats are of a higher intelligence level. |
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bearfan454 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-01-05 10:46 AM Response to Original message |
2. They don't want to admit they have been duped. |
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KittyWampus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-01-05 10:46 AM Response to Original message |
3. 35% isn't massive. Any occassional periods of higher support comes from |
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alarcojon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-01-05 11:08 AM Response to Reply #3 |
26. Love your last line |
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salin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-01-05 11:23 AM Response to Reply #3 |
31. to point three - the left actually thinks policies are more imp |
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lateo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-01-05 12:39 PM Response to Reply #3 |
38. Not clueless... |
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brainshrub (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-01-05 10:46 AM Response to Original message |
5. They have a strict-father worldview of politics. |
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KingFlorez (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-01-05 10:48 AM Response to Original message |
6. A nation always has a time |
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cdb (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-01-05 10:48 AM Response to Original message |
7. Telling them what they want to hear |
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henslee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-01-05 10:48 AM Response to Original message |
8. The daddy syndrome? Not grasping that the country so many |
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flyarm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-01-05 10:49 AM Response to Original message |
9. they own the media!!!!!!!!!!! n/t |
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Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-01-05 10:51 AM Response to Original message |
11. It gives them permission, even encourages them to voice their |
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Boomer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-01-05 10:52 AM Response to Original message |
12. Same thing happened in Nazi Germany |
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RagingInMiami (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-01-05 10:53 AM Response to Original message |
13. This country is divided into two groups |
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CTD (732 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-01-05 10:53 AM Response to Original message |
14. People filter news/info for "facts" that support their existing worldview |
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KharmaTrain (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-01-05 11:06 AM Response to Reply #14 |
22. It's "Feel Good" Stuff |
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fasttense (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-01-05 10:55 AM Response to Original message |
15. Luck. They came at the right time and were willing to tell the lies |
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tularetom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-01-05 10:56 AM Response to Original message |
16. It's all about marginalization of groups |
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smirkymonkey (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-01-05 11:06 AM Response to Reply #16 |
23. That's it exactly! |
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EST (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-01-05 11:58 AM Response to Reply #16 |
37. Crudely put, but this is the more succinct description. |
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AmandaRuth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-01-05 10:57 AM Response to Original message |
17. because a lot of people don't understand what the wingers are really |
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dave123williams (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-01-05 10:59 AM Response to Original message |
18. Look; most think they're buying in to baseball, hot dogs and apple pie. |
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CrispyQ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-01-05 11:01 AM Response to Original message |
19. Here's one take that I think is pretty right on for most of them. |
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salin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-01-05 11:05 AM Response to Original message |
20. three reasons |
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Chi-Town Exile (546 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-01-05 11:07 AM Response to Reply #20 |
24. Good post. |
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Chi-Town Exile (546 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-01-05 11:05 AM Response to Original message |
21. They throw the word "God" out there |
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Mayberry Machiavelli (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-01-05 11:07 AM Response to Original message |
25. Because it tells them what they want to know. |
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leeman67 (535 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-01-05 11:09 AM Response to Original message |
27. why? because it's easier. |
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WritingIsMyReligion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-01-05 01:27 PM Response to Reply #27 |
45. Yeah; "God" forbid that they should |
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newportdadde (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-01-05 11:14 AM Response to Original message |
28. Its not that many, 1/3 of half that bother to vote. |
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0007 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-01-05 11:15 AM Response to Original message |
29. Letting others do your thinking is easy, and this administration |
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dretceterini (329 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-01-05 11:40 AM Response to Reply #29 |
35. Notice how many right wingers |
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TheCowsCameHome (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-01-05 11:18 AM Response to Original message |
30. Being brain-dead wasn't illegal the last time I checked |
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WritingIsMyReligion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-01-05 01:28 PM Response to Reply #30 |
46. Unfortunately... nt |
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tlsmith1963 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-01-05 11:29 AM Response to Original message |
32. I Used to Just Laugh at Them... |
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B Calm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-01-05 11:32 AM Response to Original message |
33. Those damn liberals want to take our guns... |
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seabeyond (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-01-05 11:34 AM Response to Original message |
34. feeds into fears, and lack. allows them to hold on to all and not share |
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tom_paine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-01-05 11:42 AM Response to Original message |
36. Because they have the most coordinated, sophisticated propaganda machine |
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Hello_Kitty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-01-05 01:08 PM Response to Original message |
39. America (a sizeable portion anyway) loves bullies |
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neweurope (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-01-05 01:09 PM Response to Original message |
40. They play on base fears and base desires, that's why. It works |
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Parche (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-01-05 01:09 PM Response to Original message |
41. right wing |
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Cyrano (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-01-05 01:18 PM Response to Original message |
42. People will buy camel shit,, as long as it's well packaged. That's why |
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ComerPerro (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-01-05 01:19 PM Response to Original message |
43. Its easy to just turn off your brain and buy into it. Plus, the truth is |
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WritingIsMyReligion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-01-05 01:26 PM Response to Original message |
44. Because they are Pavlov's Dogs, |
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omega minimo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-01-05 01:55 PM Response to Original message |
47. Two words |
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PowerToThePeople (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-01-05 01:58 PM Response to Original message |
48. Low IQs. Or a self-centered attitude towards life. n/t |
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SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-01-05 02:04 PM Response to Original message |
49. They ARE a minority, but they have wrestled control of the media |
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