How Do You Explain Ben Carson's Success in Iowa?

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38. LOL. Possibly, but I'm thinking too much Fox in the house.

Seriously. Most of these people don't actually believe all that stuff so much as they SUPPORT the side saying it.

Over the past three to four decades Fox and the rest of the right-wing media machine, using techniques first developed in advertising and considerably developed since, have turned most conservatives into knee-jerk protection/attack dogs.

That's why Rush always starts by saying something like "You'll never guess what the Democrats are up to now." The next lines will tell them what to attack and give them some handy catch phrases to use.

Note that most of Carson's followers are not just religious conservatives but authoritarian conservatives, which means they put their leader in charge of their conscience and let their leader worry about right and wrong for them. Weird but true.