Conservatives and lies

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  1. Motorcity Gator

    Motorcity Gator Well-Known Member

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    With the midterms approaching I came across this article that at least makes some sense of it all when it comes to me trying to understand the culture of fabrication as promoted by President Trump and conservative media sources and why so many of those on the right.... in spite of education and other signs of capable intelligence will tend to buy in to those lies.

    https://slate.com/technology/2017/11/why-conservatives-are-more-susceptible-to-believing-in-lies.html?fbclid=IwAR0vDBPzKU85QfCcurXa4KjaIIgOjOcfD86FeuyDYLKMePmRrVr3qEeYq7w

    So you see.... it's all scientific... :wink: 8)
     
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    Millions of Democratic voters still think that the Russians somehow "hacked" the last election and that they colluded with the Trump campaign. But then, they believed that they could keep their doctor, keep their health plan and that rates would go down.
    Obama a Muslim? Well he was educated in a Muslim school in Jakarta, let Assad get away with gassing women and children after he drew a "red line", tied the military's hands so that ISIS was still functioning when he left office and sent the Mullahs in Iran hundreds of millions in CASH. Perhaps the delusional are those that think he wasn't a Muslim
    Al Gore produced a movie in 2006 that claimed that in 10 years sea levels could increase by 20 feet. Democrats believed it. Like all climate change predictions, it was completely false.
    Democrats believed that manufacturing jobs had left our shores and couldn't return without a "magic wand." Democrats believed that 2% GDP was the "new normal." They actually believed that high corporate taxes and excessive regulations were the best way to manage a successful economy.
    Why did Obamacare ever become law? Well to quote the architect of that law Johnathan Gruber, “the stupidity of the American voter . . . was really, really critical for the thing to pass.â€￾ He wasn't talking about Republican voters.
     
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  3. Motorcity Gator

    Motorcity Gator Well-Known Member

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    Talk about taking a sliver of truth and turning it into a wild fantasy:

    https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2007/dec/20/chain-email/obama-attended-an-indonesian-public-school/
     
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    LOL! CNN, AP, Chicago Trib, and the LA Times investigated....and they found out that the school taught a "little" Islam. Which gets us back to Johnathan Gruber.
     
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