A Party of Paranoid Cranks

[babylonsister]

http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2013/10/3/18283/5618

A Party of Paranoid Cranks

by BooMan
Thu Oct 3rd, 2013 at 06:28:03 PM EST


The latest Democracy Corp report (pdf) on the beliefs of Republicans is highly depressing. It's not only what they believe; it's that they are just wrong about everything. Their brains have been marinated in a toxic stew of highly corrosive anti-science religion, Fox News, hate radio, and intensely targeted misinformation campaigns. It's a wonder that they can still remember where the Sun rises and sets.

The study broke Republicans into focus groups and then categorized them as either moderates, evangelicals, or Tea Party members. The moderates sound like sane people who just don't like paying taxes or dealing with government regulations. The evangelicals and Tea Party folks sound like they've been programmed by a malicious scam-artist oligarch/preacher. They are all totally paranoid. I mean "paranoid" doesn't even do justice to what they believe. We need a stronger word.

But they do have one thing basically correct. They feel like the Affordable Care Act will be really popular in the sense that the people who receive a subsidy to buy health care will not vote for a party that wants to take their subsidy away. Now, they think that the only people getting subsidies will be lazy folks who don't work, but that's not really my point. I already told you that they are wrong about everything.

ObamaCare isn't going to turn America into a country of lazy moochers. It's going to turn middle class white folks into stronger supporters of the federal government, and therefore the Democratic Party. It's the same reason a lot of retired white folks support the Democrats. The Democrats created Social Security and Medicare, and old folks know that.

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Part of me insists on mocking these people, but I am actually angry that there are so many people who have been programmed to be this upset and filled with anxiety and basically unhappy. People aren't naturally this mixed up. You have to physically damage people to get them to believe and behave this way.

There are a whole lot of folks who make people stupid for a living. And they're screwing up my country.

[PADemD]

1. Disagree

I disagree with the statement:

You have to physically damage people to get them to believe and behave this way.

IMO, they have been brainwashed into believing.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

2. Brainwashing causes physical changes in the brain.

Study after study shows that watching Fox News decreases your knowledge and intelligence. No kidding.

[Volaris]

3. Yep. and the neurons in the brain are somewhat like muscle,

the more you use it, the stronger it gets. In the case of neurons, the more you use them for things you hadn't considered, the more they "wire up" to each other, the easier it is to think new thoughts and consider new approaches, truths, and avenues of engagement.

[Volaris]

4. Babylonsister this is AMAZING...

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I'm on page 5 and the way forward for this nation into the century all of us here WANT AND NEED to live in is laid out, for all to see.
The "Republicans" don't need to be defeated, to me, it seems, they need to be saved from the forces that use and manipulate them to their own ends.

The mechanisms for us to do this are all RIGHT HERE, if we have the brains to figure out how use it.

Again, amazing information.
Many thanks for posting link to report.

ON EDIT: First and Second sentences at the top of page 12..in context, = HOLY SHIT. (literally, my JAW DROPPED when I read that) the manipulators doing the brainwashing have turned projection into a marketable SCIENCE.

[Cha]

5. Yes, they're messin' with our Country!

Mahalo babylonsistah