Right Wing Thinking in Decline

[SoDesuKa]

The Reagan funeral brought out so many unsupported claims about his presidency that it made me wonder whether right wingers are even capable of critical judgement. Maybe they've forgotten how. After all, Bush has been talking nonsense for three years and right wingers don't ask any questions.

As one example, conservatives who used to call themselves fiscally responsible have given Bush a blank check to spend unaccountable billions on pre-emptive wars. He'll leave behind a debt so huge that our grandchildren will be paying it off, and perhaps even their grandchildren as well. But there's not even a murmur of protest from right wingers; in fact they act like silence is patriotic.

These people are living in a fog. Presented with facts, they reply with slogans. The worse Bush does, the more they dig in. It's really bizarre. Future historians will be amazed at the collapse of right wing critical thinking.

[kaitykaity]

1. Lucky for us they are a

small minority, and they are under the spell of
a cult. I have one that I correspond with, and it's
fun to yank his chain, since I realized it was hopeless
to try and change his mind.

It is fun to score points on him, though.

[Crunchy Frog]

2. That's because

they long ago decided to abandon empiricism for ideology, and making bald assertions and pronouncements that can't be backed by evidence.

They built up enormous think tanks for the purpose of simply pushing lines, based on what they've already chosen to believe, rather than on objective evidence. They get their views accepted by controlling the media, and by shouting the loudest, not by having the best arguments or being supported by evidence.

In this way, they have pretty much managed to sieze the terms of debate in our society, and pass their views off as being reasonable, mainstream, and correct, and our society has overall lost it's critical faculties.

This is essentially the same thing that happened in the Soviet Union. Evenually it will all fall apart, since, in order to work, policy must be based on reality, not ideology.

I think it's pretty much our entire society that has lost the capacity for critical thinking, since the RW dominates the entire mainstream media, and even alot of liberals have unconciously accepted their underlying assumptions.

[SoDesuKa]

3. Faith-Based Government

Our government has gotten much more faith based than it was when Reagan was president. Nobody made the claims for him when he was alive that we're hearing now that he's dead. Imagine claiming there's divine light in his eyes. Yuk!

[rumguy]

4. They are living in a fog

They are fucking zombies...

[burythehatchet]

5. Lounge thread

"Right Wing Thinking in Decline"

No comedy on GD.

[HFishbine]

6. Funny though

There are a few voices of right wing dissent, those once thought of as rabid. Pat Buchanan on Iraq and the deficit; Bob Barr on the Patriot Act are two that come to mind.