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Why do Conservatives hate fact checkers? (Original Post)
Dirty Socialist
Oct 2020
OP
Autocracy demands obedience. They feel like their authority is being challenged if you
Baitball Blogger
Oct 2020
#8
FoxNewsSucks
(10,429 posts)1. Because they're unable to stop lying.
Even when they don't need to lie, they lie anyway out of habit.
Claustrum
(4,845 posts)2. If the fact checkers are on their side, they would love them.
Unfortunately, facts aren't on their side so they hate facts and fact checkers.
Trenzalore
(2,331 posts)3. Since 1980 their entire ideology is based on a lie
Gothmog
(145,176 posts)4. GOP talking points are inconsistent with facts
CincyDem
(6,355 posts)5. Fact checkers make it hard to rewrite history.
And when youve been on the wrong side of so much history, ya got to rewrite it.
UTUSN
(70,686 posts)6. Hah!1
RainCaster
(10,870 posts)7. Truth & honesty are not in their platform
Baitball Blogger
(46,703 posts)8. Autocracy demands obedience. They feel like their authority is being challenged if you
ask too many questions.
PJMcK
(22,035 posts)9. That's a joke, right?
The hypocrisy and dishonesty of the Republican Party is beyond description.
Fact checkers highlight those conflicts.
Yes, it's disturbing that a solid part of our country doesn't understand reality.
It's no wonder we are so divided as a nation.
IcyPeas
(21,865 posts)10. they want an "alternative facts" checker, where's kellyanne conway?
moonscape
(4,673 posts)11. Because facts have a liberal bias. n/t