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Zenlitened

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4. "...find ways to slow, stop or counter the insidious, right-wing meme machine"
Wed Mar 7, 2012, 11:03 PM
Mar 2012

Agreed, this needs to be a top priority.

Should've been for about two decades, now, at least.

I think the first step is for us all, especially those in a position to make themselves heard, to be willing to call a lie a lie.

That goes for the Democrats we elect as leaders, certainly.

No, they can't go spouting off like we do on a message board.

But they need to recognize moments when the studied etiquette of the Senate floor, for example, just doesn't get our message out.

Not when it's up against the kind of deliberate, unrelenting, reality-warping propaganda the rightwing spews daily, exactly as you describe.

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