re: #17 ContraryLemming

There’s a strange narrative taking place wherein the wingnuts see the leftist as being a solid, disciplined bloc. To anyone who’s been at a progressive rally or organization meeting, this is clearly risible (“Hey, like dudes, I have the talking stick now…”).

I think that what they’re perceiving as ideological discipline is only sanity. The further they tumble down the rabbit hole, the more everyone else (who is not listening to the Great Noise Machine) looks like they’re against them. At some point, their paranoia becomes (has become?) a self-fulfilling prophecy.

someone posted yesterday a wingnut tweet (I think) that the Liberals were the real theocrats because they wanted to feed the poor.

The drones, the brainwashed and the generally ignorant will buy that.