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The Bob Cesca Show: Harris Mint

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Renaissance_Man11/16/2017 6:26:24 pm PST

re: #200 Charles Johnson

Part of me thinks that as long as Democrats keep trying to act all ethical and decent, and hold each other to a high standard, while right wingers act like snarling feral wolf-human hybrids who don’t even know what “ethics” are, we’re going to keep losing because they’ll just keep tearing us apart by appealing to the worst instincts of the Homo Sapiens lizard brain.

Just part of me. But this is a problem we really need to find a way to solve, because it’s a big reason why Democrats keep losing.

It’s a tempting thought, to throw away any ethics and morals and simply treat the Conservative cult as poorly as they do everyone else. While I might think that sometimes, I don’t think it’s the answer, nor the main reason that Democrats are on the short end of the stick.

The main reason is near total control of the most powerful institution in the US, the news media. That’s been a process that has been ongoing for decades. With that, the far right can do as it pleases and faces no public backlash.

Yes, humans have base instincts, and appealing to them to turn the right into a cult has worked. But at heart, most humans understand right and wrong. It takes total indoctrination and an immersive world to make them deny that. The pervasiveness of American media has allowed that here, but I don’t believe the answer is to try to fight that by being equally awful to appeal to the same. Cultists believe their cult leaders, and trying to usurp the position of the cult leader with more madness to turn it towards another goal hasn’t worked in any cult I can think of. The answer is to break the hold of cult media. And I think the path to that is through the rise of new media and the internet.