Another rabid repugnant encounter

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2. That describes every one in my family.

They don't know what they don't know. They get very emotional when their tenuous holds on the snarled web of their fragile confirmation biases is challenged by facts.

My brother was practically in tears because I ridiculed his favorite FoxNoise celebrity pundits. He was so distraught you'd have thought I'd just lambasted his wife, but that's how deeply ingrained the brainwashing is.