It's Draft Time: Impeachment Edition

[Dill]

(05-20-2017, 07:42 AM)xxlt Wrote: That movie has been playing for almost 40 years! It can play for another 140! They will never get it!

Hope you are wrong about the percentage of the base that believes in the deep state. I realize Fox News is a powerhouse, but even they don't spout that shit. I mean do Breitbart et al even have one million readers combined?

Remember that Fox includes Hannity, Rush and Levin, among others.  Yes they do spout that shit, for hours every day. I have listened to Rush off and on for years and I have never heard him this rabid about a subject. Hannity is more strident about it than ever. Rush alone has as many as 12 million listeners on peak days, who hang on his explanation of the "bureaucrat class" now seeking to obstruct Trump from within--most especially by leaking. (Leaks are BAD now!)

And their listeners call in to express their outrage over the establishment Republicans who are helping to take down Trump because he is trying to "drain the swamp." 

Fox news forms a kind of total umbrella or SURFACE BUBBLE inside which millions of Fox News viewers huddle for hours every day. Among these are millions of people who are "default" rightists. They just don't choose to access diverse news sources. So they judge current events through the Fox filter. But if the chaos in the White House becomes too great, the filter breaks down; they won't blame it all on Democrats and the deep state. Many understand and are troubled by the fact that no liberals forced Trump to tweet to the world that Comey better watch out. Fox commentators like the Fox News Specialists strain for equivalences to make it seem Trump's missteps are no worse that Hillary's or Obama's or a problem that will go away as Trump gets experience.

Inside that large bubble, however, nestle even more extreme right news websites like the one you mentioned, Breitbart, but also dozens of Alt-right and religious conservative and NRA oriented sites and forums. As the true believers see the same faux scandals (how much uranium did Hillary sell the Russians?) "reported" on each site, these scandals become true and incontrovertible. Rightists discuss them for hours on long threads and link them to other faux scandals to form a totalizing picture of public institutions protecting Democrats and unfairly tarring Republicans. 

This sort of bubble knowledge is contested or ignored by the mainstream media, of course. But that is only more fodder for the bubble. It is proof, not of the MSM's higher journalistic standards, but of their "liberal bias." So the same lack of credibility you and I might accord Breitbart, they direct to the entire spectrum of MSM.  The result is a significantly large segment of the electorate who still believe Al Gore said he invented the internet, the Clintons killed Vince Foster, and Obama was born in Kenya. For them it is no stretch to believe 3-5 million people voted illegally. Might as well add those voters were illegals, living off welfare and taking jobs from Americans. I call this THE DEEP BUBBLE. People in it live in a world in which Big Government is ready to take away our guns, Muslims are ready to impose Sharia on the US, and the MSM are distorting this news and lying ALL the time, while Trump and his minions are taking them on--exposing the TRUTH BEHIND THE FACADE.

And in this bubble, the liberals and establishment Republicans are not really upset by what they call Trump's lack of fitness for office (Liberal hypocrisy!); they are upset because they lost and the game is up. America is about to become great and they'll be out of power forever--these are the stakes, according to Rush. So the globalist liberals and Republicans cannot let that happen!

oops, sorry I went on so long XXLT.