It's those dueling realities constantly clashing, it makes the far right bonkers.
Here's what I don't get. I don't get how people, even individuals who don't follow politics, don't lose their fucking minds that there is a faction of our Government, openly and purposely trying to tank us for positioning. The obstructionism isn't to *protect us.* Even the far right devotees who live, breath and eat fear, paranoia and anger every single day, are starting to get that little glimmer of "Wtf?" in their eyes. I know they'll never truly be able to step outside of the bubble, but tiny holes are finally being poked in, just enough that only the most ideologically devout are able to defiantly ignore glimpsing what's on the other side of those holes.
This is what happens when you make everything absolutely black or white. It creates contradictions..contradictions you must now defend or attempt to explain away. Rarely will you find any item that doesn't consist of multiple layers. Sometimes you get lucky and something is exactly what it represents itself to be, but most of the time there's more involved. Things you agree with, things you don't, but rarely will you be just checking off only one side of a list.
For instance, (Darth will know who I'm talking about) I have a friend who posts daily on FB about President Obama. This person has become incapable of finding anything positive or redeeming in what President Obama does or who he is. I mean...anything. On the rare occasion where he is challenged or someone points out something is exaggerated...it doesn't matter. You will never see them say, "Oh, my bad, I thought *this* was true. Well good for them/him/us." It turns into them jumping to another item, not yet challenged or perhaps even true, that affords them the ability to bypass the contradiction without real comment. Or despite the information, they prefer what they were told/read...and they'll stick with that. And presto, the absolutism stays intact.
I mean for the love of Pete, I was no fan of W., but due is due man. There was never this all out concerted effort on my part to ignore anything that didn't satisfy a devout D vs. R mentality. Nor, even while I took umbrage with something he said or policy at times, to do so purely for the purpose of making him fit some villain role. I can't hate just to hate. And I can't ignore part of reality to facilitate the hate.
Iceman?
