When I started posting on Fox News after Trump won his first election...one of the first things I picked up from those posting was the absolutely blistering hatred they had of Hilary, Obama and Susan Rice. It wasn't just a "don't like their politics" thing...it was a deep-seeded hatred of the evil these demons brought upon our country. I might be exaggerating a little on that last statement, but the fact that I sensed the hatred being deeper than just differing political views isn't. It was palpable and notable to me back then so that's why I'm posting about it today. You're right...this has been building for decades...not just in the Trump era. I think that Rush Limbaugh and Newt Gringrich were key components that made it mainstream and Trump was the accelerant that made it take off like a rocket ship.
Look no further than the stories from last week describing how many Texan's wanted to decline Federal funds for the creation of an emergency alert system for major storms and flooding.
They called it "Biden Money" and it was therefore evil.
The money was finally accepted, but they used it for other things.
Yeah in the Shadow Gospel book we spend a LOT of time talking about the various precursors to all of this...in the 90s you see an interesting shift from Evangelicalism being the hub of a lot of the liberal/leftist/Dem devil talk (and it was very very literal in those networks, with all kinds of overlap with talk of the actual apocalypse) to what we call the Church of Fox News, where the evil liberal becomes a good television character. It's all so enormously strange but does account for the fervor you see that goes so far beyond disagreement over policy! We talk about it as quasi-religion, but it's not God that's at the center of the discourse...
When I started posting on Fox News after Trump won his first election...one of the first things I picked up from those posting was the absolutely blistering hatred they had of Hilary, Obama and Susan Rice. It wasn't just a "don't like their politics" thing...it was a deep-seeded hatred of the evil these demons brought upon our country. I might be exaggerating a little on that last statement, but the fact that I sensed the hatred being deeper than just differing political views isn't. It was palpable and notable to me back then so that's why I'm posting about it today. You're right...this has been building for decades...not just in the Trump era. I think that Rush Limbaugh and Newt Gringrich were key components that made it mainstream and Trump was the accelerant that made it take off like a rocket ship.
"Demoncrats," and they're serious as a heart attack.
Look no further than the stories from last week describing how many Texan's wanted to decline Federal funds for the creation of an emergency alert system for major storms and flooding.
They called it "Biden Money" and it was therefore evil.
The money was finally accepted, but they used it for other things.
"stupid is as stupid does"
Yeah in the Shadow Gospel book we spend a LOT of time talking about the various precursors to all of this...in the 90s you see an interesting shift from Evangelicalism being the hub of a lot of the liberal/leftist/Dem devil talk (and it was very very literal in those networks, with all kinds of overlap with talk of the actual apocalypse) to what we call the Church of Fox News, where the evil liberal becomes a good television character. It's all so enormously strange but does account for the fervor you see that goes so far beyond disagreement over policy! We talk about it as quasi-religion, but it's not God that's at the center of the discourse...