Liars in America »
Posted By chuck-the-canuck 3 months ago in Political OpinionFacts don't matter in the alternate Republican reality where Joe Wilson, Sarah Palin and the birthers are heroes.
"Ignorance is not merely the lack of knowledge, but self-destructive turning away from truth in all areas of life. Persons develop a taste for ignorance, the predisposition to embrace erroneous beliefs based on presumption or mere authority. The ignorant person believes he knows what he actually doesn't know. He becomes delusional. He is deranged." So declared Plato, unwittingly describing the face of 21st-century American conservatism in the age of Obama. Today, facts and fiction appear more interchangeable than ever before in America's public discourse.
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"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro." Hunter S. Thompson
"By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch ...
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hyperbola3 months ago
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What we have in America is a problem with right-wing religious sects and their manipulation by corrupt oligarchs. We have gone through such periods before, e.g. during the McCarthy era. It remains to be seen if there is enough moral integrity left in the GOP to do with Savage, Beck, Limbaugh, Wilson, Palin, Armey, .... what Eisenhower did with McCarthy.
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The article says well how important this is:
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""Thomas Jefferson famously said: "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilisation, it expects what never was and never will be." The fabric of American civilisation now faces one of its its toughest tests to date. Only time will tell whether it can it re-emerge from the darkness of ignorance.""
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