Question 2: If right wingers love America, why dont they trust American institutions?

[citygator]

Where have we caught up with this? Not even close. We stayed about even with being 30+% behind where we were when President Biden took office. How is that a good thing?

Pal. That takes the end of 2020 as a baseline. Let me show you that 2020 was bad data affected by covid shutdowns layoffs of low paid service workers and stimulus. That is why we use 2019 as the benchmark. Vs 2019 we are doing better. Look at this chart closely which is labor wages adjusted for inflation. We only look bad verse that fake covid year. You are smart enough to get that, right?

 

[citygator]

tldr but

TLDR

 

[Markle]

Pal. That takes the end of 2020 as a baseline. Let me show you that 2020 was bad data affected by covid shutdowns layoffs of low paid service workers and stimulus. That is why we use 2019 as the benchmark. Vs 2019 we are doing better. Look at this chart closely which is labor wages adjusted for inflation. We only look bad verse that fake covid year. You are smart enough to get that, right?

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Why lie to yourself? No one believes your malarkey. It will be decades before we catch up with the 30+% increase in groceries and energy. Who is hurt the most by those increases and the cost of shelter? The folks you want to appear to be most concerned about.

 

[lennypartiv]

I'll take leftist infiltration for $100 Alex.

Yep. Send your kid to college and the liberal professors will indoctrinate him.

 

[citygator]

Why lie to yourself? No one believes your malarkey. It will be decades before we catch up with the 30+% increase in groceries and energy. Who is hurt the most by those increases and the cost of shelter? The folks you want to appear to be most concerned about.

Totally disingenuous. You choose ignorance or deception for yourself. Sad. I even annotated the graph so now you look like a moron. Everyone sees it.

 

[ThunderKiss1965]

No, you will not be allowed to break the Constitution, the laws, or the courts.

And yet you have no problem with the Government breaking the Constitution.

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

And yet you have no problem with the Government breaking the Constitution.

When and if it does, we will take care of it, because you won't.

 

[Deplorable Yankee]

 

[j-mac]

They've been brainwashed into believing that anything labeled 'Liberal' is evil.

For example, Global warming was accepted as a scientific fact by everyone since the late 1800s. But when Al Gire - a 'Liberal' - wrote a book about it, suddenly Conservatives universally believed that global warming was a 'Liberal' hoax. No matter how much proof you show them, they refuse to believe it just because a 'Liberal' said so.

If Rush Limbaugh had declared global warming to be a threat, they'd all be on board.

I thought the world was supposed to burn up by now?

 

[ThunderKiss1965]

When and if it does, we will take care of it, because you won't.

The only thing the Constitution mentions is the Post Office and the Military. The rest of the garbage you loons think the Government should handle is no where in the document. Prove me wrong.

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

The only thing the Constitution mentions is the Post Office and the Military. The rest of the garbage you loons think the Government should handle is no where in the document. Prove me wrong.

You are a constitutionalist, or a libertarian, or a nihilist. or some weird combination, so, yes, you are wrong.

 

[LordBrownTrout]

Part II of my disussion on the American right asks the question: If right wingers love America, why dont they trust American institutions? It stands to reason that if you love something you tend to love the fruit it produces, right? Right wingers claim they love America more than their counterparts but have expressed utter contempt for all of its institutions. How can something so revered also be so reviled?

A partial list of untrustworthy institutions:

• The American press
• Doctors
• Scientists like the CDC
• Educators and universities
• Environmental experts like the EPA
• Government leaders and administrators
• The Election process
• The legal system
• The actual government

The distrust is so visceral that right wing conspiracies are now commonplace. The article below talks about Fox News’ role in this predicament. As you can see from the chart below it is entirely an American phenomenon.

Why dont right wingers trust American Institutions?


Feel free to visit or revisit Part 1: Do right wingers actually ‘like’ America?


Post Inspiration:

Fox News has destroyed American confidence in itself - Kevin Drum

This week the Economist wrote about the way American trust in institutions has collapsed over the past couple of decades. This is not news. However, this is a very interesting comparison: Collapse of trust in government is a purely American phenomenon. Why? Because we have Fox News and the...

jabberwocking.com

Collapse of trust in government is a purely American phenomenon. Why? Because we have Fox News and the others don't. Oh, they have tabloids and conservative newspapers and so forth, but nothing like Fox News, which makes its living by spreading outrage over the way the country is run.

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The power of Fox News is truly spectacular. Outrage sells, and the fact that one of the two major parties amplifies Fox uncritically means it has a surprisingly large influence in setting the agenda for the mainstream media too.

The truth is that US institutions mostly operate about as well as they ever have. But Fox pushes outrage over Dr. Fauci and trust in the CDC plummets. They push outrage over Donald Trump's loss in 2020 and trust in elections plummets. They go all in on CRT and DEI and trust in schools plummets. They push climate denialism and trust in science plummets. They insist that the rest of the news media are liberal pawns and trust in the very institution that explains reality plummets.

Has there ever been an institution like Fox News that works so relentlessly from within to destroy faith in a country by its citizens? It's a real-life version of what conservatives thought the Communist Party was in the '50s. And we all just let it happen.

At one time those institutions were respected. Now they're just liberal propaganda columns. The most recent, millions injured and killed by the mRNA injections yet our govt pumped out lie after lie knowing full well that this was experimental yet they lied to the public. In 1976, 7 people died from the swine flu program and the govt shut it down. Same with all the other departments. Corrupt and tyrannical.

 

[Missouri_Mike]

Part II of my disussion on the American right asks the question: If right wingers love America, why dont they trust American institutions? It stands to reason that if you love something you tend to love the fruit it produces, right? Right wingers claim they love America more than their counterparts but have expressed utter contempt for all of its institutions. How can something so revered also be so reviled?

A partial list of untrustworthy institutions:

• The American press
• Doctors
• Scientists like the CDC
• Educators and universities
• Environmental experts like the EPA
• Government leaders and administrators
• The Election process
• The legal system
• The actual government

The distrust is so visceral that right wing conspiracies are now commonplace. The article below talks about Fox News’ role in this predicament. As you can see from the chart below it is entirely an American phenomenon.

Why dont right wingers trust American Institutions?


Feel free to visit or revisit Part 1: Do right wingers actually ‘like’ America?


Post Inspiration:

Fox News has destroyed American confidence in itself - Kevin Drum

This week the Economist wrote about the way American trust in institutions has collapsed over the past couple of decades. This is not news. However, this is a very interesting comparison: Collapse of trust in government is a purely American phenomenon. Why? Because we have Fox News and the...

jabberwocking.com

Collapse of trust in government is a purely American phenomenon. Why? Because we have Fox News and the others don't. Oh, they have tabloids and conservative newspapers and so forth, but nothing like Fox News, which makes its living by spreading outrage over the way the country is run.

View attachment 934907

The power of Fox News is truly spectacular. Outrage sells, and the fact that one of the two major parties amplifies Fox uncritically means it has a surprisingly large influence in setting the agenda for the mainstream media too.

The truth is that US institutions mostly operate about as well as they ever have. But Fox pushes outrage over Dr. Fauci and trust in the CDC plummets. They push outrage over Donald Trump's loss in 2020 and trust in elections plummets. They go all in on CRT and DEI and trust in schools plummets. They push climate denialism and trust in science plummets. They insist that the rest of the news media are liberal pawns and trust in the very institution that explains reality plummets.

Has there ever been an institution like Fox News that works so relentlessly from within to destroy faith in a country by its citizens? It's a real-life version of what conservatives thought the Communist Party was in the '50s. And we all just let it happen.

Because they squandered all of their trust worthiness and goodwill and haven’t even attempted to win it back. Blame them for pissing it all away instead of those that are smart enough to not keep falling for their bullshit.

 

[ThunderKiss1965]

You are a constitutionalist, or a libertarian, or a nihilist. or some weird combination, so, yes, you are wrong.

I'm a strict Constitutional Conservative. You dodged the question and are full of shit. The answer is none of the multitude of laws and programs you loons champion can be found in the Constitution.

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

I'm a strict Constitutional Conservative. You dodged the question and are full of shit. The answer is none of the multitude of laws and programs you loons champion can be found in the Constitution.

That is your Qanon thinking, yes, and in this country you get to be a public fool.

 

[ThunderKiss1965]

That is your Qanon thinking, yes, and in this country you get to be a public fool.

I've never been on Qanon. I'm not a fan of Trump so you can't claim MAGA crap so you will call me a fascist and or a racist. The typical bullshit script from a loon that can not answer a simple question. Dodge and call me names you think are insults.

 

[martybegan]

Part II of my disussion on the American right asks the question: If right wingers love America, why dont they trust American institutions? It stands to reason that if you love something you tend to love the fruit it produces, right? Right wingers claim they love America more than their counterparts but have expressed utter contempt for all of its institutions. How can something so revered also be so reviled?

A partial list of untrustworthy institutions:

• The American press
• Doctors
• Scientists like the CDC
• Educators and universities
• Environmental experts like the EPA
• Government leaders and administrators
• The Election process
• The legal system
• The actual government

The distrust is so visceral that right wing conspiracies are now commonplace. The article below talks about Fox News’ role in this predicament. As you can see from the chart below it is entirely an American phenomenon.

Why dont right wingers trust American Institutions?


Feel free to visit or revisit Part 1: Do right wingers actually ‘like’ America?


Post Inspiration:

Fox News has destroyed American confidence in itself - Kevin Drum

This week the Economist wrote about the way American trust in institutions has collapsed over the past couple of decades. This is not news. However, this is a very interesting comparison: Collapse of trust in government is a purely American phenomenon. Why? Because we have Fox News and the...

jabberwocking.com

Collapse of trust in government is a purely American phenomenon. Why? Because we have Fox News and the others don't. Oh, they have tabloids and conservative newspapers and so forth, but nothing like Fox News, which makes its living by spreading outrage over the way the country is run.

View attachment 934907

The power of Fox News is truly spectacular. Outrage sells, and the fact that one of the two major parties amplifies Fox uncritically means it has a surprisingly large influence in setting the agenda for the mainstream media too.

The truth is that US institutions mostly operate about as well as they ever have. But Fox pushes outrage over Dr. Fauci and trust in the CDC plummets. They push outrage over Donald Trump's loss in 2020 and trust in elections plummets. They go all in on CRT and DEI and trust in schools plummets. They push climate denialism and trust in science plummets. They insist that the rest of the news media are liberal pawns and trust in the very institution that explains reality plummets.

Has there ever been an institution like Fox News that works so relentlessly from within to destroy faith in a country by its citizens? It's a real-life version of what conservatives thought the Communist Party was in the '50s. And we all just let it happen.

Iowahawk figured it out years ago.

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

No offense but the group claiming that the economy is crashing and going into recession for the last 4 years predicting that we are out of economic 'gas' is only so concerning. More funny actually.

Old Woman Living in a Shoe

Long-term decline. All this "making the right moves" when they are subservient and sub-par. They benefit the bootlickers popping up through that route, but the whole economy continually stumbles downhill, with a few short elevations along the way.

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

Yes,

College Means Nothing More Than Buying a Job. QED.

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

Scholarship. Sorry.

You Sacrificed Years of Pay From a Full-Time Job