Fact-Free Ideology and the Black Hole of tea party politics…
Never mind that the Tea Party has no idea about what the real Boston Tea Party was about. Forget about the fact that almost all members of the Tea Party have benefited from portion of our social contract that they call “socialism”. If they enjoyed paved roads and indoor plumbing through a public provider - they are sucking on the government teat - even if they don’t understand that they are. The Tea Party and the radical right share an ideology that is almost completely fact-free.
You are not entitled to your own facts….
Trying to get any kind of common sense through that wall is impossible. Its as if people living in the Fox News Bubble have all bought a top-of-the-line “white noise” machine that selectively blocks out any and all facts. Daniel Patrick Moynihan was fond of pointing out “You are entitled to your own opinion, but you are not entitled to your own facts.” These days the latter does not appear to be true. We are inundated political pablum on the right that appears to be 100% fact free. Junk science abounds - with political operatives filled to the brim with all the pseudo-science the oil and gas companies could possibly provide…
A giant void of news in a 24/7 news cycle…
The fact that the top cable channels offer 24/7 “news” hasn’t helped either. They are more concerned with eyeballs than something so trivial as facts. The fairness doctrine? You’ve got to be kidding me…Equal time for opposing views? Yes that was once the law of the land - but no more. Bill Clinton called the 2010 election among the most “fact free” elections ever imagined. And the irony is that it was held at at time when Americans had more information at their fingertips than ever before.
Unless we regain control of the news cycle - cable companies to become wedded to fact - not sensationalism - it will be almost impossible to change the conversation. We need another FDR - but instead we’ve got Obama….
Enjoy the video below…as Bill Maher and Keith Olbermann try to introduce a dose of facts a republican living in a bubble of misinformation…
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