And a high school classmate on FB just dismissed Cato as a "liberal blog"

[Recursion]

While complaining about the $3800 / month "illegal refugees" get.

I give up. We're never bringing them back to a fact-based world.

[dalton99a]

1. They also sell women's dresses

[brush]

2. Where are they getting this vile stuff they're regurgitating?

When Cato is considered a liberal blog, how extremely right are these brainwashed sheeple?

[el_bryanto]

3. Its simple - anything that conflicts with their world view is fake news

Anything that confirms with their world view is accurate. That's how Limbaugh and Hannity and Trump can go so easily from attacking the New York Times from quoting a story of theirs approvingly. Tomorrow if the Cato puts out a piece supporting their trash world view, they will forgive Cato.

Bryant
http://politicalcomment.blogspot.com

[Recursion]

4. Cato is anti-Trump, which is all this guy needs to know

This really is like a cult.

[JHB]

5. Taking bets on how often this person complains about...

..."low information voters".

[Recursion]

6. Ha! Mostly he just complains about "welfare"

I've shown him over and over again that "welfare" as a program hasn't existed in 25 years, and that Mississippi (the state we're from and where he still lives) has the lowest TANF payments in the country. Doesn't matter. Never sticks. He sees the world he fears.

[LuvNewcastle]

7. Probably listens to Alex Jones.

Sounds like a guy I know who thinks Steve Bannon is a liberal. Infowars listeners are probably the most misinformed people on the planet, and if they're fundagelical Infowars junkies, there is little hope for their future.

[Poiuyt]

8. Wasn't he a friend of O.J.'s?

[Turbineguy]

9. Catoooooh?

[pecosbob]

10. Some will slowly regain some semblance of normality

but others will act out all the way to whatever form of self-immolation they choose. Be wary not to trigger their fifteen minutes of infamy.

[Recursion]

11. This guy has a graduate degree and a professional degree. He's a DVM and a MPH.

He's seriously not stupid. I want to make that clear: he is not stupid. He is a damned good veterinarian.

But: my God. His view of the world is simply off the tracks.

[pecosbob]

12. I came home from the Navy in '79 and found that my little brother had become a dittohead

It took a combined therapy of Howard Zinn, Noam Chomsky and four years at UT Austin to cure the symptoms. My brother was not stupid, quite the opposite in fact, but a steady diet of disinformation warped his views. He's a professor at UNC now so there is hope that we may successfully de-program some. I can understand this among younger, impressionable people, but unless I miss my guess, your friend is older, as I assume you are from your writings on this site. I'm not sure how it is that a relatively well-adjusted person succumbs to the propaganda. I suspect it's something like when Madison Avenue makes you feel bad with advertisements to sell you their product.

In any case I have to put this on a steady diet of the daily BS meant to distract, divide and manipulate the populous. The one percent have been peeing on the people and calling it rain for decades now and some have accepted this view as reality.

[Initech]

13. Man they get $3800 a month? Where do I sign up?