When higher mental functions fail to satisfy, modern rightwingers also tend to let their inner child have its way in pouting, raving and mocking, as Ozoned has done, above...
Even when they really have nothing to say, certainly nothing constructive, no counter requiring actual thought, they just have to say something, anything to arrive at the self-parody I pointed out.
It's a truly sad commentary on the results of 30 years of thinktank generated rightwing propaganda, on just how badly twisted and deformed public opinion has become as a result.
This really is a bigger threat to democracy than anything else currently, in conjunction with the commericialization of political propaganda and the unleashing of the corporate budgets.
Out nation could be all Glenn Beck type commentary, all the time, and these people would not think anything was a problem.
It's a little like the people who say they are for free speech but want to silence anyone they disagree with, not realizing the hypocrisy.
Our nation consists of the truth hidden in plain sight, in an embarraqssment of riches of hundreds of quality investigate books that go unread, while the propaganda fills the (corporate consolidated) media.
THey don't use 'free speech' except as consumers of propaganda, so they don't value it, and could easily be persuaded to back the silencing of 'enemy voices', if anyone listened enough for them to get heard.
One of our political factions seems to be more the 'ignorant and irrational', not any more solid basis for distinction. They're the party of id, feeding off the stroking of their ego, party identity, fear.
I've long called them a cult for a reason. Ideology is their fuel. Science has shown the rational brain stays inactive when these people are presented with political issue.
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