RedState.com to ban users quoting FACT CHECKERS (not snark, these idiots really mean it)

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30. Creating their own bubble of alternative reality has worked

for them, at least in the short term.

Unfortunately, the cold, hard facts have a way of intruding all by themselves, and the net result for any of the folks who bought that alternative reality is increasingly unbearable cognitive dissonance. They tend to freak out over nothing, in other words, because of the cumulative effect of all they're trying to exclude from their lives jumping up in their faces and reminding them it's still there.

That's why we're going to see more of them going postal in the coming years. Cognitive dissonance is an exquisitely painful thing to experience, as evidenced by how we feel when we are treated to some right wing gasbag on TV sonorously intoning Republican boilerplate we know to be utterly false.

The next few years will be interesting, to say the very least. Whether or not we end up with a Canadian style restriction on the first amendment for news broadcasters because of it is anyone's guess. My own guess is that news broadcasts will be the redhaired stepchild of media, the thing that's on for an hour in the evening that no one watches any more, victims of their own uselessness.