Thread by @kurteichenwald

1. I do not believe that the GOP middle classers now getting slammed with higher taxes should have known, even though we told them endlessly. I do not believe they deserve ridicule...

They have been subjected to decades of propaganda, told "everyone lies to you but us" by.....

2...Fox, Breitbart, and their own political leaders. They have seen frauds like Paul Ryan switch from averages to medians and back again to disguise what the numbers are actually doing. They have been told that one-shot PR "bonuses" were salary increases. Then they had their....

3...withholding adjusted for them so that they thought their taxes had gone down in the months leading up to the election, only to see them slam back up once the election ended. They have been lied to, manipulated. And then top that with the use of endless faux-scandals which....

4...result in nothing, feeding the Fox et. al. line that there is some big conspiracy against them. There is no way these people would ever believe reality told to them when pathological liars willing to say anything to get their own tax cuts were feeding them garbage. So, no....

5...i dont find this funny that they are now discovering how much they have been lied to. I was angry when they looked at the gigantic tax cut they got from Obama and proclaimed it to be a tax increase because Fox said so. I was angry when they saw the GOP fighting to increase...

6...the payroll tax - one of the largest tax for most middle classes, the lowest for the upper class - rather than let it stay cut when Obama did it to help the middle class. But that stuff was complex.

Now, they are seeing the lies - in checks they are writing and receiving...

7...this time, I will not ridicule. They can see it for themselves. There is no lie that can make their losses become wins.

After this, if they still do not see reality, they no longer are deserving of any understanding. Then, they are pure cultists, not just people deceived.