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In reply to the discussion: I've been having a lengthy argument on facebook with a former neighbor [View all]marions ghost
(19,841 posts)--easy to think it's only the "stupid." Plenty of smart people are buying the kool-aid. Smart people are not always wise.
An older guy tried to talk to me the other day in the line at the PO. He was friendly and nosing around the political fringes. I could tell he was a Fox zombie. He said, "we need 3 political parties." I agreed and said "we have the right and the middle well represented, so we really need a left party." His head exploded and if we didn't have to leave the line, I'm sure he would have retorted something about Obama being a flaming socialist.
These people are all around us and we who live in liberal enclaves need to understand how brainwashed they are. The rightwing noise machine is doing a great job polarizing the country.