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RAB910

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6. The right-wing built a very effective propaganda/hate machine

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Tue Jun 22, 2021, 11:17 AM

Jun 2021

The more it's used and refined the further the right and GOP are removed from reality

I have right-wing friends and relatives that I have spoken to for years. Never has their view of reality been more skewed that it has been over the last year or so

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The Republican Party is drifting not further to the right, but further from the real. [View all] kpete Jun 2021 OP

Doesn't sound like "drifting" to me. They know exactly what they're doing. n/t Raven Jun 2021 #1

Cold, calculating, and succeeding blm Jun 2021 #2

They were drifting since Reagan, they aggressively accelerated under the Former Guy...nt Wounded Bear Jun 2021 #3

They've been more concerned about power than truth... Buckeye_Democrat Jun 2021 #4

again, fascist selective populism. Thomas Hurt Jun 2021 #5

The right-wing built a very effective propaganda/hate machine RAB910 Jun 2021 #6

He has a point. The GOP no longer seems to have a defined ideology any more Ocelot II Jun 2021 #7

Lies are their platform. SamKnause Jun 2021 #8

Reach out across the aisle with a taser. lagomorph777 Jun 2021 #9

This is exactly what happens when you drift to the right. Caliman73 Jun 2021 #10

Bullshit-Believers believe the darnedest things. czarjak Jun 2021 #11