Yeah, I'll be supporting my candidate, but...
The conservatives I used to know actually cared about facts. They could break down a news story and tease out the nuggets of truth from the BS by digging a little deeper. Sites like Conservative Treehouse would give a different *factual* perspective on wildly emotional stories that allowed all of us to see things more clearly. Now even that site is wholly unreliable.
On sites like FreeRepublic, every conversation about the primaries plays out like an argument with an unstable girlfriend:
"I crashed your car? I crashed your car? Well, let's not forget about that time when you bought me white chocolate truffles for Valentines day after I mentioned that one time that I HATE WHITE CHOCOLATE!!!"
Nobody sticks to the topic. As soon as you start bringing up stubborn things like *facts*, they change the topic to whatever slur they can thrown at Cruz. It's like people are physically unable to think logically anymore. It's frustrating.
In this case, we have a thread that is predicated on an "article" that uses omissions, innuendo, and outright misstatements to create a situation that is untrue. The conservatives I *used* to know would spot this in a skinny minute. They were the kind of conservatives who could spot the proportional fonts in the Dan Rather memos when typewriters of the era were expected to have monospaced fonts.
Those days are over, it seems. They ended on June 16, 2015.
Initially, I fought against it, but the infection is so deep, why bother? The patient called "conservatism" is nearly dead. My efforts to treat the illness will never succeed. There is no refuge left of sensible conservativism left, is there? Anywhere you go, THEY will be there, furthering the infection,destroying rational discourse, killing the patient.
