It’s the same old bullshit. The right-wing propaganda machine is there to sway the minds of people who aren’t going to think too critically about what they’re being told. You’ve got the Hannity types making emotional appeals on a daily basis, casting anyone who deviates from the message as an enemy. You’ve got the fake intellectuals like Mark Levin making the calm, wordy appeal where someone who doesn’t pay close attention will think that two people who are smarter than them are having a conversation about “important ideas” and discussing really detailed “facts” and reaching the same conclusions as the gut guys like Hannity, so those conclusions must be true! And then you’ve got the political shills (a.k.a. fucking liars) who are part of the government, or closely associated with the party or right wing “think” tanks, who just go out and tell bold-faced lies over and over again to provide fuel for the propaganda machine.
If you go and independently check any of this stuff outside of the right wing echo chamber, it’s obvious where it falls over. You don’t have to be an expert to see the flaws. And if you don’t spend much time in the right wing media, it’s pretty shocking when you dip your toes in. There’s truly an alternate reality over there where the only scandal with Ukraine involved the Bidens, and where there’s hard evidence of massive multi-state voter fraud that stole the presidential election, and where die-hard Trump-supporting Republican officials who stood by the electoral processes in their states are now clearly corrupt RINOs taking bribes from China.
It’s not hyperbole to say that U.S. right wing culture under Trump has become a cult. Say anything against the leader or the cult itself and you’re “discredited” and excommunicated. Anyone who isn’t on board all the time is an enemy, even if they’ve proven their loyalty to the cause time and again. If you can’t support the official line, you have to stay quiet or suffer the leader’s wrath. It’s a pathetic joke, and it’s only able to take hold because Americans as a whole stopped valuing knowledge and intellect (those are things for the “elite”!), aren’t encouraged to think critically (religion has a lot to answer for on that front), and aren’t given a proper civics education so they don’t know how the government works or when these sacks of shit are lying to them about what is and isn’t legal. But hey, at least we posted that awesome selfie on Facebook and listened to “WAP” for the umpteenth time.
