I was in a taxi with friends in Las Vegas over the weekend and the talk, of course, turned... and it gave me a BEE-YOO-TEE-FUL opportunity to connect a dot or two because it posed the perfect moment to assert how important taxes are and what they're really for: funding infrastructure and the social safety net. And I made that point. Using the ol' "if-then" logic construct I learned in high school. Starting with - "well, because nobody wants to pay taxes, then you're stuck with streets in decay and deteriorating roadways and whole sections of Texas going to gravel roads ... Wow - let's all go Third World then, 'eh?" And the taxi driver, who seemed to be of the demeaner of a wobbly, low-information CONservative supporter, responded with - "well, I dunno..."
"Well, I dunno..."
And it usually trails off, vocally, from there. That's the giveaway - the first signal that you've rattled their complacency-cage and all the bullshit assumptions that have been carefully fed and nurtured and buttressed by the frank luntzes and newt gingriches and kkkarl roves and roger aileses of the world. Those bastards WANT YOU STUPID, and UNQUESTIONING. Just one big mouth, consuming and swallowing whatever the hell they want to insert there. What YOU then say, to blow a hole in the bullshit wall of these simple, gullible, ill-informed stooges and other noncritical thinkers, will not compute. It doesn't fit with what they're well-conditioned to be thinking and assuming and concluding. So they don't know what to do with that info. They have no template for this and no way to apply this new learning. Could even be the first time some of 'em have even been exposed to another way of looking at things like this. They don't know, and this never occurred to them before, and they don't know how to process this info or where it fits or what to do with it. This is their default response when confronted by this stuff that doesn't fit what they've been taught by the CONservative media exploiters and other opportunistic infections.
"Well, I dunno..."
These poor unfortunate pitiable marks give themselves away. They're spot-on there. Correct - they DON'T know! Self-accused, self-tried, and self-convicted. They DON'T know. They truly don't. They don't pay attention, they don't listen carefully, they don't read, they don't analyze, they don't connect dots, they don't try to look even a millimeter deeper or farther behind the curtain or the talking points. They watch Pox Noise and listen to limbaugh and clones and just absorb it passively. They don't engage. They engorge. And THAT is how you build a new GOP supporter.
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