Reply #15: I think its something more akin to Tribalism [View All]

[lapfog_1]

kind of like a Sports Team fanatic (aka fan).

They identified with the "winning team" (i.e. the GOP) in much the same way they might identify with the local Pro football or basketball team. After all the team slogans like "government is evil, we are for small government" and "taxes are evil, you can make better decisions than the government about how to spend your money" and "if you have government to do something, it's much better to have the government hire a private firm than to hire government workers"... all those belief systems have been instilled through a generation of propaganda into the masses. So the people that eat this shit up have a sports team fan mentality ("death to the other side... boo boo boo"). Never mind that THEIR team long ago quit any pretense of practicing what was preached. It's still THEIR team, their tribe. Many of the fans are now waking up to the fact that their team stinks... and doesn't practice all of those propaganda points, and, worse, is making horrible decisions about the "game". I only hope they go all the way and quit coming to the contests, and even question WHY they were fans in the first place!