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Originally Posted by roachboy
it's curious to read ace's latest moving-around-of-words...at a time when the markety basis for conservative ideology has been imploded by reality and the right has opted for a reality-optional approach that enables them to maintain consistency at the level of statements (realilty be damned)----all very unwittingly implosion of empire stuff, frankly----it's not terribly coincidental that you'd see attempts to impute "substance" to the rhetorical form "value" and then see people like ace repeating--unwittingly no doubt, given the reality-optional thing---the moves of any number of western european neo-fascist political groups in grouping these make-believe substantives around white christian "core values" and using them to try to draw us/them lines.
it's all of a piece with making the choice to preserve fictions about the world in place of the world and to anchor them in place with a version of conservative identity politics. because in situations like this, what comes to be at stake is a matter of identity. and there's a high-priced ideological system that's been reinforcing this whole reality-optional space for some time.
after all, there's this:
40 Percent Of Americans Still Believe In Creationism
and this:
Fox News Viewers Are The Most Misinformed: Study
which comes out of this:
Voters Say Election Full of Misleading and False Information - World Public Opinion
which outlines a pretty clear preference for fiction over reality that is specific to conservatives. |
No surprise about Fox News, with a clear and blatant political agenda and its viewers who arent looking for facts, but reinforcement of their firmly-held beliefs.
And then there is this from a CBS/NY Times poll, re: those self-identified as supporters of Tea Party movement:
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Sixty-three percent say they get the majority of their political and current events news on television from the Fox News Channel, compared to 23 percent of Americans overall.
Sixty-four percent believe that the president has increased taxes for most Americans, despite the fact that the vast majority of Americans got a tax cut under the Obama administration. Thirty-four percent of the general public says the president has raised taxes on most Americans.
An overwhelming majority of Tea Party supporters, 84 percent, say the views of the Tea Party movement reflect the views of most Americans. But Americans overall disagree: Just 25 percent say the Tea Party movement reflects their beliefs, while 36 percent say it does not.
Ninety-two percent of Tea Party supporters believe President Obama's policies are moving the country toward socialism...
Tea Party Supporters: Who They Are and What They Believe - Political Hotsheet - CBS News
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If such stalwart Fox news commentators as Beck, Palin, Huckabee repeat it often enough, they believe!
The overlap of buying into misinformation between Fox News viewers and Tea Party supporters is no coincidence.