Your friends believe the sources they believe because they WANT to believe them. As I have said before, very few of these people are being fooled. They are not patsies in the sense that the wool is being thrown over their eyes. The information is available from a wide variety of sources... and they disregard the sources that they do not like and the information that they do not want.
The public hearings will result in not much. We are way past the point of public hearings. Nobody that needs to watch them is going to be watching them because it is fake news and a Democratic plot to destroy this country.
even many that believe what the committee has found out and what it will say and demonstrate through evidence will ignore it--either out of a sense of frustration/nihilism or because, in the end, they are okay with it so long as it is THEIR side that runs the authoritarian machine.
This crap should have been nipped in the bud 30+ years ago in its gestational stage. Far too late now when you have a multi-billion dollar media empire that depends upon it and a lot of politicians that depend upon it.
You wrote, "they are okay with it so long as it is THEIR side that runs the authoritarian machine. " Exactly, but in their short-sightedness (or lack of reading history), they fail to understand the authoritarian eventually comes after them, one way or another.
People are complaining that the GOP is embracing the White Replacement Theory like this is some sort of new phenomenon. But even as far back as when I was a Rush Limbaugh listener (late 80s early 90s) he was claiming that Democrats only wanted increased immigration (or open borders) in order to increase their voter count (i.e. White Replacement Theory).
This is nothing new with the GOP and their voters no matter how much the press and others want to pretend it is.
Your friends believe the sources they believe because they WANT to believe them. As I have said before, very few of these people are being fooled. They are not patsies in the sense that the wool is being thrown over their eyes. The information is available from a wide variety of sources... and they disregard the sources that they do not like and the information that they do not want.
The public hearings will result in not much. We are way past the point of public hearings. Nobody that needs to watch them is going to be watching them because it is fake news and a Democratic plot to destroy this country.
even many that believe what the committee has found out and what it will say and demonstrate through evidence will ignore it--either out of a sense of frustration/nihilism or because, in the end, they are okay with it so long as it is THEIR side that runs the authoritarian machine.
This crap should have been nipped in the bud 30+ years ago in its gestational stage. Far too late now when you have a multi-billion dollar media empire that depends upon it and a lot of politicians that depend upon it.
Well, not my friends....
You wrote, "they are okay with it so long as it is THEIR side that runs the authoritarian machine. " Exactly, but in their short-sightedness (or lack of reading history), they fail to understand the authoritarian eventually comes after them, one way or another.
Few believe that They will come for THEM until the knock on the door comes... especially the well-to-do.
People are complaining that the GOP is embracing the White Replacement Theory like this is some sort of new phenomenon. But even as far back as when I was a Rush Limbaugh listener (late 80s early 90s) he was claiming that Democrats only wanted increased immigration (or open borders) in order to increase their voter count (i.e. White Replacement Theory).
This is nothing new with the GOP and their voters no matter how much the press and others want to pretend it is.