g5000
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The faux conservatives suffer from a false dichotomy and confirmation bias.
The false dichotomy is the assumption that if someone does not believe every bad thing about Obama, including all of the completely false manufactured bullshit about him, then that person must be a liberal. If a person does not believe something without evidence, they must be a liberal. If someone corrects a lie, they must love Obama and ObamaCare.
The confirmation bias is when someone believes something about Obama just because it portrays him in a negative light. They do not ask for evidence. If it makes Obama look bad, it must be true. No need for further investigation.
This is what is destrying the conservative movement from within. This persistent rotting of the brain which does not question its sources, and which continuallly pays homage to sources which have been proven time and time and time and time again to have completely made shit up, or to have lied by omission.
There are no solutions coming from the right these days. None.
"America!" and "Freedom!" are not solutions. Just empty rhetoric.
The false dichotomy is the assumption that if someone does not believe every bad thing about Obama, including all of the completely false manufactured bullshit about him, then that person must be a liberal. If a person does not believe something without evidence, they must be a liberal. If someone corrects a lie, they must love Obama and ObamaCare.
The confirmation bias is when someone believes something about Obama just because it portrays him in a negative light. They do not ask for evidence. If it makes Obama look bad, it must be true. No need for further investigation.
This is what is destrying the conservative movement from within. This persistent rotting of the brain which does not question its sources, and which continuallly pays homage to sources which have been proven time and time and time and time again to have completely made shit up, or to have lied by omission.
There are no solutions coming from the right these days. None.
"America!" and "Freedom!" are not solutions. Just empty rhetoric.