re: #507 Renaissance_Man

I’m not sure everyone else has noticed. I made a post a while back about how it really is okay, in American society, to hate liberals. That sort of stuff is, well, kind of patriotic. At best, people get frustrated by ‘both sides fighting’.

The worst part of cult propaganda is not that it makes cultists angrier. That’s tragic, but a limited, local phenomenon. The worst part is that it infects public perception, and gradually shifts public perception to ignore all but its most blatant excesses. It really is okay to hate liberals, to push hate. I talk to a lot of people, and I hear some variant of ‘yeah, FOX is pretty bad, but all the other networks are just as bad, so it all works out’ all the time. Or ‘sure, I don’t believe he’s a Muslim/Kenyan traitor/whatever, but he’s pretty socialist blah blah blah wealth redistribution blah blah higher taxes’. That’s the worst part - changing reality.

In all my life I’ve never seen one anti-conservative bumper sticker. However, I’ve seen countless anti-liberal bumper stickers of every stripe. This is not a general observation but one based on the specific usage of the word “liberal” versus “conservative.”