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OneGrassRoot

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2. I couldn't agree more. I ponder this frequently...
Tue Nov 6, 2012, 09:20 AM
Nov 2012

and worry about it nearly every day.

The right-wing propaganda and extreme partisan politics begun in earnest back in the early 90's have taken hold.

There are Fox News/Limbaugh people, apathetic people who ignore all of it, and people who employ critical thinking.

The one thing that gives me a glimmer of hope is that the audience for Fox/Limbaugh are older. Their audience will die out, but I've seen the propaganda infect young people of parents who are Fox/Limbaugh people, especially in the realm of flat-out bigotry and racism.

We should read up on how to treat people who have been brainwashed. That's literally what we're dealing with.



K&R

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