The Republican base seems willing to believe anything their leadership tells them. It would be worth understanding why.pic.twitter.com/1bA3bN1ZwY
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This is the behavior of zealots. What has turned them into zealots? Not the economy: the economy doesn't do that.
My guess is that they're driven by a deep, identity-based dislike of liberalism. They despise NPR culture, partly because it despises them.
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That's why that remark about "deplorables" provoked such a reaction.
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This is the best explanation I have found. Very simply put, we have a city vs rural problem. http://www.cracked.com/blog/6-reasons-trumps-rise-that-no-one-talks-about/ …
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Terminological minefield: they dislike leftism, not "liberalism" in the classical sense, with which many of them fundamentally identify.
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It couldn't possibly be a media propaganda empire fueling this? http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/03/17/how-fox-news-and-the-right-wing-media-machine-made-my-dad-crazy.html …
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The question is why there's demand for that sort of propaganda in the first place.
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As someone who now works in public radio, I can tell you most of us try very hard to present the views, concerns of working class Americans
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I do think the smugness in American liberalism is a problem, alienates a lot of people. See this article about it: http://www.vox.com/2016/4/21/11451378/smug-american-liberalism …
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To suggest that any of us "despise" coal miners, truckers, farmers, steelworkers, etc. is the sort of stereotyping that leads to madness
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Correct, the leading peddler of this anti Liberal behavior has been the pulpit of the Christian Right. Follow Dr
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