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In reply to the discussion: Why are right wingers so often intellectually dishonest? [View all]applegrove
(117,885 posts)38. They lie because they cannot win if they stick to the truth. They
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create myths and plant them in peoples minds. People vote on those myths. Myths are how humans have learned to live in large numbers...like in cities. But the truth keeps showing up and undoing their myths...like the banking crisis, Katrina, how trickle down economics does not work, etc. Because their myths are not about making the world a better place for most people.
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What a load of pure, unadulterated horseshit. Besides the right's refusing to abide
KingCharlemagne
Dec 2014
#31
Both sides do it, both sides breathe air, other than that, there is NOTHING the left and the right
NoJusticeNoPeace
Dec 2014
#51
Here's a good example of how their minds (if one may use the term) operate. Shortly after
KingCharlemagne
Dec 2014
#34
He identified himself as an agnostic in a letter written shortly before his execution
Major Nikon
Dec 2014
#57
Teaparty and the like live in a universe where Obama is a Muslim waiting to bomb their
NoJusticeNoPeace
Dec 2014
#54
cognitive dissonance only lets in facts that support their delusional world view
on point
Dec 2014
#29
Exactly.. if they weren't dishonest then they would be wrong all the freakin time..
SomethingFishy
Dec 2014
#39
They have to be because their beliefs are based on lies, racism and sick Randian fantasies.
workinclasszero
Dec 2014
#42
Well, my late right-wing grandfather thought that Obama was a "far-left radical"..
YoungDemCA
Dec 2014
#45
Maybe not rich but sounds like a classic Bircher -right age group...was he a Bircher?
lunasun
Dec 2014
#56
the same words mean different things to them. take the "golden rule", for instance.
unblock
Dec 2014
#55