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1. Nothing better proves my recent thread about the thought processes of the GOP matching that of 1980s Soviet officials - science denialism, party loyalty over reason and fact, the need to crush dissenters, ideology supplanting logic - than the responses of conservs to it...
2...they come back with nonsense like "America has low unemployment!" and general attacks on liberal fringe groups portrayed on Fox as the center of the democratic party. This is very helpful to understand: Like the Soviets, these people are beyond reach. We do not understand...
3...how they readily throw aside science, reason & facts, and we try endlessly to use those to get them to reality. We point out their hypocrisy. But none of it matters. Party loyalty is all. They believe in mass voting fraud - even though next to no one is charged for it - ...
4...somehow the FACT of next to no indictments - and even fewer of in-person voter fraud - does nothing to shake their confidence that it is real, because the Party and its Pravda - Fox - tells them it is. They do not see anything odd about the endless "Hillary is a criminal"...
5...even though she has never been charged with anything or had a report that ever said anything other than that she had been reckless with her emails. They BELIEVE that, somehow, the Secretary of State ordered the military to stand down, even though she has no authority over...
6...the military. (This is Benghazi conspiracy theories.) The fact that 11 reports - including by GOP - and the Secretary of Defense says it is not true, this does not penetrate, because it is a matter of faith among the party faithful.
This is a big realization for me. There..
This is a big realization for me. There..
7...is no way to reach these people, other than becoming a Trump Republican. Just like the Soviets before them, they cannot and will not think independently. If they are told up is down - over and over and over - as a matter of party ideology, they will repeat it and nothing...
8...will ever convince them otherwise.
Why I say this: Stop trying to convince them. You can no more argue with them than with a Soviet apparatchik. They will never abandon party loyalty, because they have instead abandoned reality. So, discuss with those who....
Why I say this: Stop trying to convince them. You can no more argue with them than with a Soviet apparatchik. They will never abandon party loyalty, because they have instead abandoned reality. So, discuss with those who....
9...live in the real world, even if they do not agree with your philosophy or beliefs. We have a chunk of this country in the same fantasies driven by party loyalty that helped destroy the USSR. Those living in the real world - both conservatives & liberals - have to ignore them.
10...and remember - if anyone in any way diverts from the orthodoxy of the GOP/Soviets - they are destroyed. "Enemy of the people" was used extensively by the Soviets to attack dissent. And those who disagree were demonized even in death. Case in point with GOP: John McCain. 
