Conservatives Have Figured Out A Disturbingly Effective Strategy: Tell Lots And Lots of Lies
Conservatives have figured out that the way to win any debate is to drown your opponent in lies.
Updated to add: A commenter reminded me that this phenomenon was first chronicled with creationists and deemed the Gish Gallop by skeptics. You can read about that here.
The rollout of manufactured conservative outrage about insurance plans being required to cover contraceptionsomething, may I remind you, most already didhas been a demonstration that the right wing noise machine has perfected the art of bullshit, after decades of honing their craft. Conservative leaders have learned they can train their followers to believe anything, with One Simple Trick: Lie faster than the debunkers can debunk. With the contraception mandate, theres been a dizzying amount of lies that have been pouring out of the right, and this is no accident. Conservative leaders have learned that if you drown your opposition in lies, they are doomed. Even if they debunk one lie, audiences who are eager to buy into the anti-contraception line will simply cling to another. If you debunk that lie, conservatives just switch to another or switch back. So discourse goes like this:
Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/03/26/conservatives-have-figured-out-a-disturbingly-effective-strategy-tell-lots-and-lots-of-lies/
bemildred
(90,061 posts)It's a desperate tactic resorted to when you have no real argument.
yurbud
(39,405 posts)bemildred
(90,061 posts)It's common on the web in the form of wall-of-text posting. Give readers say an hours worth of reading to do (no problem at all on the web) and then whine about them not having read it all, like if you post it, everybody is obligated to read it.