Wingnuts are gullible! How GOP’s bubble of ignorance keeps leading to humiliation

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Wingnuts are gullible! How GOP’s bubble of ignorance keeps leading to humiliation

by Brian Beutler at the Huffington Post

http://www.salon.com/2014/03/11/gops_sick_welfare_obsession_how_a_bubble_of_ignorance_keeps_leading_it_astray/

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If you’re sure your ideas are correct and confident your solutions are the right ones you’ve already erected a significant barrier to self-examination. And when admitting error carries enormous financial, personal and ideological risk, it feels easier not to check. You’re shocked when your candidate loses, because none of your friends voted for the other guy. And you just pass along stories they tell you about the soul-crushing nature of welfare, or the horrors of the Affordable Care Act, without bothering to apply a smell test.

Combine that instinct with a well-heeled, amoral campaign apparatus and you get a bunch of Americans for Prosperity ads that wither under scrutiny.

For instance: “A Dexter cancer patient featured in a conservative group’s TV ad campaign denouncing her new health care coverage as ‘unaffordable’ will save more than $1,000 this year under the plan, The Detroit News has learned.”

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That’s not to diminish the annoyance and uncertainty she felt when her old plan was eliminated, but to say that the premise of her complaint about her new plan is wrong. AFP probably doesn’t care; it’s just as likely that they never bothered to check. Here’s what Boonstra had to say.



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1. I think it is that people like Paul Ryan are so desperate for facts or stories to

back up their world view that they'll take anything. And they don't care. They just have to get the narrative/phoney proof out in public. Catapulting the propaganda. I'm sure Paul Ryan knows his theories are bullshit. He's not naïve. He just doesn't care what discernible reality truly is. He wants the world to be a certain way. He is one step away from "setting somebody up". The GOP followers may be naïve or uninformed. The people that get fed this pablum of bulsshit Ryan and others put out. But Ryan knows the difference. He just doesn't care for the alternative evidence/anecdotes that disprove his crap world view. The author of this is giving Paul Ryan way too much credit. In fact, I'm sure Ryan is proud of fooling people. He's a show off. Convinced that he can make people believe anything.

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2. P.T. Barnum would be so proud

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4. 'A lie often repeated becomes the truth.' They own the media and lie 24/7/365.

After a while, the speech that money pays for overwhelms the facts and becomes 'common knowledge' for the consumers.

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3. Kick.. mahalo apple~