Twist and Shout - It's their fault for being them

[IDemo]

"I actually believe that things were better before this president was elected. And I think things have gotten worse because of his unusual emphasis on race."

--Dr. Ben Carson

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One of the greatest accomplishments of the conservative fog has been to turn logic inside out, backwards, upside-down, all at once—to twist into grotesque mutations what would be simple truths to anyone with eyes and a functioning cerebral cortex.

Then, to put the froth in this mental mush, they anoint those who are best at it to be their intellectual giants.

One of these intellectual giants—at least, in the estimation of many right-wing emphatically-less-than intellectual giants—is this Ben Carson fellow, a retired neurosurgeon who's found that there is better money to be had by convincing racist audiences they aren't racist, because if they were, why would they be so pleased that an African-American (like Carson) was saying exactly what they want to hear?

And of course, one of the things this crowd likes to hear most often is that it's that damn guy who never should have been elected president in the first place who is the real racist. Not them.

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