The real enemy, the real danger, ...

[Cary]

http://www.salon.com/2016/02/17/americas_wing_nut_derangement_syndrome_the_death_of_antonin_scalia_the_mainstreaming_of_far_right_paranoia/



As long as enough Republicans believe it, it must be true. Facts be damned.

The question remains: How do we debate a political faction that’s so entirely disconnected from verifiable truth? How do we move forward debating a White House nominee for the bench when too many Republicans believe it conceivable that Scalia was murdered by the president? How do we debate the best means of ameliorating the climate crisis? It’s practically a nonstarter when one half of the debaters are willing to support theories without evidence while rejecting math, science, history and reality in general. I suppose that’s the point. If you can’t win, and if you don’t have any answers, make stuff up. If the fantasy is marketed well enough, people will believe it. This is the business model of the modern Republican Party.

[brer cat]

1. I guess we don't have that debate.

Earth be dammed...we don't need no stinking science.

[pampango]

2. "Too many Republicans are wired to be suckered by theories backed with almost zero evidence, while

disbelieving facts proved by overwhelming evidence. (See: Donald Trump.) Put another way: A not insignificant cross section of Republicans believe in unprovable nonsense, while vocally denying objective reality."

To wit: There’s no evidence whatsoever that Scalia was murdered but, as long as there might be a one-in-a-million chance, they’ll believe it. Conversely, 97 percent of scientists agree that the climate crisis is real and caused by human activity, which clearly means it’s a hoax, according to the GOP. For conservatives, everything that’s real is fake and everything that’s fake is real.

They believe Obama and then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ordered the U.S. military to stand down during the attack on the consulate in Benghazi even though Republican investigations have repeatedly failed to prove it. ... They believe tax cuts stimulate economic growth even though trickle-down only succeeds in ballooning the deficit while leaving the middle class behind. ... They believe a series of sting videos indicting Planned Parenthood are totally real, and, indeed, the GOP is legislating based upon those videos despite the reality that 12 state investigations and a spate of nonpartisan fact-checkers have exonerated the healthcare provider of any wrongdoing.

We could do this all day.

As long as enough Republicans believe it, it must be true. Facts be damned.