Reply #36: "In a way, this one little dumb-a$$ editorial is a microcosm [View All]

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of the (Wall Street) Journal's editorial page. How much is stupidity? How much is dishonesty, and how much is the Journal just trusting that its readers' rabid ideological convictions will blind them to gaping holes in their reasoning? Hard to say." Lies and the Lying Liars who tell them p. 175

I would say it is the "ideological convictions" that lead otherwise decent people to vote Republican. They have a world view that just frames things differently, and that world view is reinforced every day by the speakers and writers of the RWNM (right wing noise machine of which Mr. Peter Schweizer is a card carrying member) which not only takes that world-view as a given, but puts a magnifying glass on the mote in the Democratic eye, making a mountain out of a mote-hill, as it were.
Tearing down such a world-view requires major cognitive dissonance and perhaps more reflection than most people typically engage in. "Given a choice between 'changing their mind' and 'proving that there is no need to do so' most people will get busy on the proof." Even more so when faced with changing their world-view.
You might have an in, being a trusted relative, but it is likely he will see you as a decent person blinded by a world view that you have been brainwashed into accepting by some librul professors, Michael Moore, the librul media, and DU.