Kidding.
No, its true. There's a really long history of people doing horrible things when somebody decides to shut down rational debate and take control of the media. That was priority one for the Nazis. There was just a great thread on the greatest list showing Fox editing a debate to make it appear the crowd was cheering Jon Bolton's call for war, when the reality is the grassroots right are sick of the government spending on these fake wars, just like everybody else. Their principles are on the line like the rest of us.
I do believe it, I do believe people are good. Politics demonizes, but the truth is people aren't demons. For instance, the pro life right wanted women to see the potential baby, thus the ultrasound law. But the real interpretation lead to the vaginally invasive ultrasound...I promise they didn't intend or expect that, but their apparent call for forced government vaginal probes made for good political bashing of them, so the left ran with it, and won that one. But did the right really intend for government mandated forced violation of women's vaginas? doubtful. Just as women who have abortions have no intent to murder unborn anything, but it makes for good demonization politics in the churches to claim that satan loving women are killing their babies. Politics demonizes but people are really just trying to do the right thing with what they know. Once you see this, the problem is one of spreading enlightenment, spreading the kind of truth that doesn't come from being oft repeated, but rather has the quality of not going away when people stop believing in it. Real truth.
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