Decency, Trump and Obama.

[hollodero]

(03-23-2017, 05:51 PM)Dill Wrote: You may miss the best part of this, unless you can get US talk radio.  As I was driving home yesterday, two different people called into the Tom Sullivan show to insist that Trump was now vindicated by Nunes, even if there was no direct mention of
Obama.

One caller said that Obama was capable of "anything" and had proved that repeatedly during his presidency.  He "knows" that Obama did order a wiretap, whatever the left media wants us to believe.

Another caller said that the entire government now, including the FBI, was "far left" Obama deep state.  They are now doing everything they can to block Trump. 

There may be millions of people thinking like this. And the talk show host could cap some of this if he'd only ask "Why would Comey torpedo Hillary's candidacy if the FBI are in on it?" Or "Does evidence matter any more; can we just 'know' without it?" But of course he won't do that and lose his audience. Instead he thanks them for calling in and giving people more possibilities to consider.

Internet gets you anything. But there are certain limits... I read some comments on FOX and Breitbart, and that's all there is to observe. No matter how irrefutably logical a point is, as long as it's not pro Trump the reactions are solely "take your meds, you clearly lost it, Trump makes libtards look stupid every day" and there's that.

Must be the result of decade-long brainwashing, and talk radio plays a part in that from what I understand. I read about Republicans recognizing that they lost all flexibility in their talking points because the indoctrination was overdone. Guess it was necessary, the republican party is a strange alliance between extremely economic liberal corporate America, the true conservative "intellectuals" (the quotation marks are not meant to diminish their intellect) and the poorer, less educated country folk - who have to vote against their economic interest every election. The way to do that is to call the GOP the more patriotic, Christ-loving gun-freedom rural party, so somehow the Founding Fathers would be the one being against corporate taxes and climate change measurements make little Jesus cry. It was one of the more puzzling and fascinating things to see, long before Trump. How many Americans vote against their own basic interests and why.

That the latter group will go alt-right doesn't come as a surprise, in that light. I lost my point, just, I guess I can imagine how your talk radio works without listening to it.