No. of Recommendations: 7
It is not hard to understand why nothing before the pedophile scandal moved spineless careerists in Congress. Inside the right-wing bubble, Republicans lie to their constituents and to themselves constantly. Real hardships and moral atrocities such as starving children, murdered foreign fisherman, Americans losing healthcare, and abused immigrants (and Latino U.S. citizens) get written off as left-wing propaganda. Only lazy people get SNAP benefits (or SNAP benefits get used for drugs). Everyone on every boat was “invading” the U.S. by smuggling drugs. Obamacare doesn’t work so it’s no loss if people cannot afford to shop for insurance in the exchanges. All those Latinos are stone-cold killers.
This is all unadulterated nonsense, easily disproved with even a passing glance at data, common sense, and/or Americans’ lived experience. But cults are self-reinforcing; the rationalizations to prevent defections from the approved party line never run out. To admit that you have gotten it all wrong would not only serve as a confession that you are a patsy, a liar, or both, but it would also entail acknowledgment that your policies have hurt decent, hard-working Americans. No wonder MAGA Republicans would prefer the security of nonsensical lies to the gnawing discomfort that facts provoke.
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