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Populist_Prole

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11. Yes. Cons are ready recipients of hunks of raw meat to feed their confirmation bias
Sun Aug 25, 2013, 01:43 PM
Aug 2013

My own very RW father has shelves of them, as do his circle of RW friends. All penned by the usual RW loons; Limbaugh, Gingrich, Bush, Glen Beck, and many others in the form of pundits like the one mentioned in the OP. Not only to they read that crap, they, exchange/lend them to each other and share notes about how correct and righteous their views are. Often they'll try to push them on people outside the bubble, to either spread the word in the hopes of creating new satellite bubbles, or to entice them to join theirs. When said person expresses revulsion to these books, they'll get all dismayed and retreat back to the comfort of their cocoons and re-congratulate each other again for being part of such a great group.

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