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In reply to the discussion: I just blocked my own brother on Facebook [View all]Buckeye_Democrat
(14,889 posts)... delves into the Limbaugh effect on some people.
I've seen it with my own eyes over the years. I worked for a temp service in the 80's at a factory that was full of people making minimum wage. It was HARD work for low pay. One guy started playing Limbaugh on his portable radio at lunch (the first time that I ever heard him), and it wasn't long thereafter that I heard many of them blaming their low wages on the company's "high taxes" supposedly used to support "lazy people on welfare."
I think there was a behavioral scientist interviewed in that movie who explained how it was strangely addictive for some people too. The movie director's father had been affected more deeply than politically, but emotionally as well.
SPOILER: It had a "happy ending." Once he was finally "cut off" from the conservative propaganda by his wife (the director's mother), the man's entire demeanor changed -- he was happier and less hateful.
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