The Republican theft of "Reality"

[Cyrano]

For too many decades, the Republican Party has claimed "ownership" of "Patriotism," "The Flag," "Values," "Morality," "God," and every other word and/or symbol that "Real Americans" are supposed to believe in and stand for. But far too many people just don’t get it. They don’t realize they’ve been conned. They just can’t see, and may never understand, that the Republicans have been, and still are, running a “WE ARE THE ONLY REAL AMERICANS” scam.

Republicans have spent the past four or five decades distorting and redefining reality. Some people still think that Nixon was “railroaded.” Many people still think that Reagan was a “great” president rather than a frail, uninformed, gravely demented man. Many still believe that Iraq had WMDs and were responsible for 9/11. To be blunt, far too many people refuse to pay attention to reality, are being had, and are therefore aiding and abetting the Republicans in the fucking of America and Americans.

One of the GOP’s biggest hustles is their “love for the military.” Republicans claim that they’re all for “OUR TROOPS” and that “DEMOCRATS HATE THE MILITARY.” It’s unfortunate that so many in the VFW and the American Legion buy this crap. They've been had and they should know better. Most veterans I know, fully understand how Republicans have spent untold years short-changing the VA and telling veterans to “fuck off.” “Love of the military” is just one more sham that the GOP has sold as one of their untrue and destructive untruths.

So how do we fix any of this horrible, distorted, and total bullshit view of "reality?" I wish I had the answer. I really don’t know how we can salvage what we once knew as America. Winning back the House this November may be a start. And if we can take the Senate,that would be a wonderful move to help us move toward a real/sane world. (If we lose both, it’s all over.)

Republicans view us as “the enemy.” Well, there really is a domestic enemy on the loose in our country today. And it is the Republican Party. And make no mistake about it. They will destroy all of our freedoms if they are permitted to continue on the path of their current “reality.”

It’s past time to restore sanity to the charade that’s calling itself our government. It’s time to restore reality.

[unblock]

1. Tribalism. They define America as owned by white Christian men. The rest of us are guests at best.

Their message gained ground steadily over the last few decades thanks and hate radio and fox news and the Republican Party.

And we ignored the threat, and Donnie is the result.

[Cyrano]

3. Yes. We ignored the early days of hate radio

And it grew into Fox "news," online hate sites and eventually, the orange creature.

I'll never understand why, historically, the sane have always underestimated those who would do humanity harm. Yet, those who would harm humanity always seem to be a couple of steps ahead of us.

[erronis]

7. It didn't "grow into Fox news" - the RW media was taken over by Murdoch, Mercers, et.al.

The ability of the people with more-money-than-brains to influence huge swaths of lower-intellect people was part of their plan. Perhaps it started in Australia with the Murdoch group. It was probably there in the Third Reich and many other controlled information systems for centuries and millennia.

[Cyrano]

8. Can't disagree with you, erronis. So what do we do??

[erronis]

10. I wished I knew. Normally we would fight their information with facts.

But they have couched it in such a way that any alternative facts are not to be believed.

For many of the true believers (or wannabe believers) rectifying opposing points of view is really too much work. Something maybe called cognitive dissonance.

I've also read many times that people that have espoused a particular point-of-view take a lot of effort to realize that it might not be wholly accurate.

Most of the outcomes from their decisions won't happen for several years and will be almost impossible to reverse or assign blame. Will any of them revisit Trump vs. other clowns? Or Trump vs. Clinton? Or RW/teaparty vs. liberal? Doubt it. Will their children/etc. have more intelligent views? Doubt it.

But there will always be a powerful kernel of people that know how to use analysis to figure out what is right and wrong. I just hope that these people will be around to help right this poor ship of state.

[SWBTATTReg]

11. We can beat them by pointing out distortions of the truth, as well as when things...

don't pan out into what the this irresponsible party tells their voters, and just keep hitting these issues and rub actual reality into their faces. The 2018 tax cut and jobs bill is an example.

Incitement of very minor morals issues is another thing...the transgender bathroom issue was one, when it can be simply resolved by having one bathroom/one person concept at a time.

Biggest thing is to stick w/ the bread and butter issues of the day, and stick w/ it. Most polls, etc. constantly state that Americans are far more worried about their pocketbooks than most other issues, so pound away on this issues constantly. Like rump is raising the cost of everything w/ his tariffs, so our net pay is down, etc.

[Caliman73]

2. Their policies have never been in the common interest so they have had to lie.

They appeal to emotion because they know that their economic and foreign policy stances do not do anything helpful for citizens and residents who are not wealthy. So, they appeal to these emotional themes of "patriotism", "family values", and the like, which also serve as coded language for White virtue.

They purposely confuse the Democratic dislike for war with dislike of people in the military. The only thing we can do is continue to mobilize, elect sane people, and move the system back into a functioning entity.

[Cyrano]

4. The real dilemma is how to break through their propaganda

[Martin Eden]

5. The bigger and lengthier the scam, the more people fall for it

Anyone who truly cares about our troops would not send them to be maimed & killed in a counterproductive war of choice based on lies.

Bush/Cheney should have been run out of town on a rail straight to jail -- not given a 2nd term and leading lives of privilege afterwards.

[Initech]

6. Not only have they rewritten reality, they're trying now to rewrite truth.

Which is why they scream "fake news" and Giuliani declared that "the truth is not the truth". WTF! We can't let them get away with this!

[FiveGoodMen]

9. Don't forget "alternative facts"

[TwistOneUp]

12. Re: the Republicans have been, and still are, running a "WE ARE THE ONLY REAL AMERICANS" scam.

They do this because their constituents are a "we'll swallow the big lie" group; e.g., people who believe Everyone of Other Faiths Are Wrong. If peeps buy into "Our Faith is the Only True Faith" lie, then they're a proven and known commodity from which they can extract ... er, get donations.

The Only Real Americans, The Only True Faith, they're both based on the same policy - delineation. From delineation comes differentiation; i.e., separating one into two parts along the line of delineation. Then the discrimination against "Them" can begin.

It's the politics of separation. I prefer to be a unifier. You?

[ancianita]

13. Make Reality great again.