ABC News: The biggest Facebook post about last night's #GOPDebate came from @BernieSanders

[Catherina]

https://twitter.com/ABCPolitics/status/644515876167880704

[madamvlb]

1. Bernie's on fire.

[Enthusiast]

2. Republicans are dead wrong in every rare instance when they aren't just simply lying.

People, do not vote for a fucking Republican!

[tex-wyo-dem]

3. When I "liked" this post last night...

It already had 112k likes...may have been shortly after the "debate" (I prefer to call it a tragic clown show).

Bernie once again nails it!

#FeeltheBern

[KansDem]

16. I'm not on Facebook

If I were, there would be 112,001 "likes."

[tex-wyo-dem]

32. No, yours would have been 112,002...

Mine was 112,001

[NRaleighLiberal]

4. Exactly. Republicans - wrong on everything, for many decades.

[roguevalley]

21. TOMATOES! Heirlooms? Delish stuff, our little tomatoes. :D lucky you to apparently

grow them.

[shireen]

29. off-topic ... but cool info

NRaleighLiberal is a nationally-recognized expert in heirloom tomatoes. Check out his posts in the gardening group. He's doing some really cool stuff.

[dorkzilla]

5. The tweets in response to his...some are stunningly idiotic

Talk about being utterly ill-informed! Why is it that the dumbest in this country also tend to be Republican and think solutions to complex problems can be found in bumper-sticker slogans?

[AlbertCat]

6. Why is it that the dumbest in this country also tend to be Republican and ....

Rush Limbaugh

Fox News

the conservative takeover and consolidation of media.

[roguevalley]

22. they seek news outlets that fit their 'facts' and world view. Hence, idiocy.

[AlbertCat]

35. they seek news outlets that fit their 'facts' and world view. Hence, idiocy.

They used to have a hard time finding such outlets(because the country was moving on....)... but the GOP revolution of the 80's and especially the 90's changed that. (about face!) They flocked to them like an oasis.

My father was kinda a jerk... until he started listening to Limbaugh. Then he became a complete and obnoxious jerk.

[LibDemAlways]

7. To answer your question, Republicans are ill-informed and dumb because

they get their information, such as it is, from Faux, Rush, Hannity, etc. It would never occur to these morons to challenge anything they hear or seek out other sources of information.

[gregcrawford]

15. It seems to me...

... that the low-wattage intellects that constitute the Republican base wallow in a swamp of inchoate resentment and inbred malice where they welcome the verbal vomit from the luminaries on Pox News because if reinforces their already ingrained prejudices. Having a TV or radio personality express, and thus validate, their most hateful and misinformed opinions gives them license to to spew their vitriol even more loudly, and sometimes to take actions that they wouldn't have the sand for otherwise.

This is why I think scum like O'Reilly, Hannity, Limbaugh, Coulter, et al. should be held at least partially responsible for crimes that are committed as a result of their venomous lies.

Mr. Sanders - who is one of my senators, by the way - very eloquently rips the flimsy mask of respectability off of these repulsive people to expose the face of pure, malevolent evil.

Here's hoping President Sanders will re-institute the Fairness Doctrine and thereby hamstring Roger Ailes and his marauding horde of rabid hyenas.

GO BERNIE!

[alfredo]

50. Read John Dean's "Conservatives Without Conscience."

He really nails them.

[gregcrawford]

51. Thanks for the tip!

I will read that.

[alfredo]

53. It's well researched and clearly presented.

[Yallow]

52. 2nd Political Book I Read

First was Lies and the Lying Liars by Franken.....

[alfredo]

54. That was a good book.

[Cosmocat]

18. Yes, but no

Faux, Rush and Hannity are the symptom, not the cause.

Yeah, the sheeple babble the bullshit the pour into their heads, but the fact is, they WANT to believe the bullshit.

[SusanaMontana41]

48. Every one of the Big Three cable networks peddles bullshit.

Even MSNBC.

[dorkzilla]

49. Totally agree. I will not watch MSNBC

And I chuckle when people call it a "liberal" network.

[SusanaMontana41]

56. Me too!

[snort]

8. One of our very own

here yesterday suggested codifying the separation of church and state. Troubles start close to home.

[dorkzilla]

12. Wait, what? A DUer said this?

Jeebus christ on a cracker, seriously?

[snort]

14. Yup. It was pointed out that the 1st ammendment

sorta covered that.

[dorkzilla]

17. Speechless. Second time in 2 days that I’m speechless.

unbelievable. Well, i don’t think we’ve got any kind of lock on intellectuals (I’m sure there are some on the other side who are just playing at being idiots) but if the GOP keep gaining power, all Americans are going to sound like feckin gobshites.

[jwirr]

10. Media, religion, deliberate ignorance, and isolation.

[dorkzilla]

13. I think that’s what I’m trying to figure out.

I know where they get their “news” but WHY is the big question? When you hear BS your BS meter starts going off, right? When you hear something outrageous, you generally tend to start fact-checking before you freak out, correct? And if you find out they’re lying, even once, wouldn’t you be really reluctant to take their word for anything again?

So what the fuck is it that makes them so...so...gullible? WILLINGLY credulous? Are they like people who love horror films because it makes them scared (whereas I don’t because if I need to be scared all I have to do is look at my bank balance)? Is it hardwiring?

Or is this just me asking an question that really has no answer?

[OnionPatch]

23. I think it's because of single issues.

They may be guns nuts or anti-choice or racist and so they really, really want to believe that party must be right about everything else.

[jwirr]

24. Okay, now assume that you listen to Faux and you

may actually question some of what you are hearing. But that guy on the radio in your car is saying the same thing. And that magazine you ordered is to. Everywhere you go all you hear is faux news.

Then you go to a church that is basically saying the same thing. You are dedicated to that church and have been long before this mess started. You KNOW they would not lie to you, right? And they send you a magazine every month reinforcing what they say. And everyone in that church - friends of yours - say it also. You trust them.

All of the above sources do not trust the government or the schools or science. In fact most of us on the rw and the left do not exactly trust the government! (Just read DU). And schools teach our kids things we do not want to know - history, science and evolution, birth control, climate change. All these things scare us and the media and our church tell us they are wrong or they are lies. Schools cannot be trusted either!!! And science - they do not understand it and they do not agree even if they do.

And so the individual becomes isolated. They watch only faux news, have a church that "tells them the truth" and is the only church telling them the truth, and they put their children in a parochial/private school that teaches what they want their kids to know and totally isolate themselves from any other sources of education.

Now they are in a complete bubble. They do not care what anyone else thinks - they do not care about stepping outside of the group and they vote like they are told. Even if it is against themselves.

Brainwashed.

[Dustlawyer]

27. They are the low information voters who fall for the propaganda.

While I fault the ignorant, most of the blame goes to the Plutocrats and their media who intentionally lie and mislead to maintain their control over our government.

We are fighting for control of our government which was taken over, not by a coup in the normal sense, but by insidiously, over time, big money interests powerful enough to dictate who Obama puts in charge of the Fed and Treasury just to name a few. Since Reagan, they always have had all the bases covered no matter who wins and the winner is usually their 1st choice. Bernie is the wild card they don't control!

[SusanaMontana41]

47. You answered that one yourself. eom

[mountain grammy]

9. Yes, they are sad and dead wrong, which is what we'll all be

if any one of them is elected; dead.
It's not these fools I fear, it's the millions who support them. 50 years ago, all would have been fringe candidates, but now with the involvement of $$$$, they're out there as everything the GOP has to offer and millions of Americans agree with them

[jwirr]

11. And that has been true since 1980.

[elleng]

19. 'For the second time this year, we, as Democrats, have had to sit idly by and listen

to the racist, sexist, and hate-spewing remarks that the Republicans have to offer. And what is our response? Silence. Crickets. An empty stage. ‪#‎WeNeedDebate‬. Join if you agree: http://omly.us/1LhLVXq '

https://www.facebook.com/MartinOMalley

[magical thyme]

25. this deserves it's own thread!

[elleng]

28. Thanks, thyme.

Will do.

[jwirr]

26. Hey DNC don't you think we should answer back?

[Eleanors38]

33. no-o-o-o. we're sca-a-a-a-r-red.

[jwirr]

34. LOL Thank you.

[Uncle Joe]

20. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, Catherina.

[mindwalker_i]

30. Bernie's tactics are really interesting

Live-blogging the debate is a stroke of genius, as was going into a religious stronghold and telling them to be what they believe in. Wow.

[JDPriestly]

45. He is less concerned about his image and about playing it safe and more interested in

reaching and inspiring voters and telling the truth.

[Pacifist Patriot]

31. One of my favorite Facebook posts about the debate came from a friend.

A real one, not just on Facebook.

"SNL is hilarious tonight. Oh no wait. It's The Republican Presidential Debate."

[Catherina]

44. Lol! n/t

[Dont call me Shirley]

36. And Christie stole a part of Bernie's stump speech.

[JDPriestly]

46. I noticed that. It was about the people needing to be engaged. Borrowed Bernie's words

As well as Bernie's idea.

[Dont call me Shirley]

55. More like stole Bernie's words, these gops are thieves.

[gateley]

37. He's right on.

Unfortunately the only people listening are those of us who already think the world of him.

[oberliner]

38. Part of that is the fault of the moderators

Many of those question were idiotic.

"He said this about you - what do you have to say about that?"

[smokey nj]

39. Are you lost?

[oberliner]

40. Huh?

I don't know what you mean by that.

I am agreeing with Sanders that the Republicans were asked stupid questions. Almost none were about policy. The moderators really should have asked them about their actual positions instead of what their secret service code name would be and other nonsense.

[smokey nj]

41. Do you support his candidacy for the Democratic nomination?

That's what I mean by that. This group is for supporters of Bernie Sanders. If you are not a Bernie supporter, and I don't think you are, please stay out of this group.

[oberliner]

42. Absolutely

I like all the Democratic candidates.

[smokey nj]

43. That's not what I meant, and you know it.