Reply #23: nope. Know why? [View All]

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Because they've been trained to disregard information which contradicts their mindset. It's kind of brilliant in a sad and shameful way.

People like Rush Limbaugh have told them that universities, science, and the media are all liberal conspiracies and biased and full of lies, so people will shut out actual facts which contradict their steady diet of propaganda.

Furthermore, they've been told that the left is anti-religious and other lies which make their target audience distrust us - and any information which we may have - immediately. To complicate matters, they like to "teach the controversy" - the awful idea that "all ideas are equal" so they can further poison the collective well of intelligence and information with crap.

The they replace that information void with their own propaganda, stir for a few decades, and voila!


Seriously though, I have encountered this in individual discussions with Bush Bots. I tried to remain rational and to provide information backed by credible sources and links and data, and they immediately come back with the claim that I am lying because all of my sources are suspect. They then throw out the idea that I am brainwashed by George Soros and that we are the ones who are duped by big money propaganda. Makes it awfully hard to have a conversation, especially when you add in that I was called all sorts of horrible names before I finally snapped and called the guy a brainwashed idiot.