Blog Credo

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H.L. Mencken

Sunday, May 22, 2011

Required Reading

http://www.slate.com/id/2295128/

Jacob Weisberg explains how the modern GOP is forced to believe in things that are demonstrably false.  It's hardly a categorical list, but it's a start.

I would add that they are able to do this by a press that refuses to point out the difference between facts and opinions.

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