‘The right’s “nihilistic oppositionalism,” he says, makes its own reality. They have “realized that if you just brazen it out, there’s no… ref to make the call. In this way, every dispute, even over matters of fact, becomes a contest of power – loudest, best funded, most persistent voices win…. Epistemology becomes competing tantrums…. So there will only be increasing impetus for cons[ervatives] to retreat into fantasy, into simple morality tales… [which] always yield more motivated, organized constituencies than ‘it’s complicated’ ever will.”’ alternet.org/media/how-our-media-helping-america-turn-land-political-idiots?page=0%2C1&paging=off¤t_page=1#bookmark
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