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Excerpt From This Link: The more Republican candidates pitch for social conservative votes, the more we see the misogyny of America’s religious right

Rick Santorum… has cast America as fighting a spiritual struggle against secularism and Satan.

Republicans and their Tea Party shock troops say they want to “take America back”. Progressives think they mean back to the 1950s, back to when men were men, women were ladies, and black folks only got into the White House by the back door. But Republicans are thinking big: they actually want to take us back to the Middle Ages, back to the “good old days” of sexual repression, regulation (ON SOCIAL ISSUES) and punishment.

Forget the economy: this election is becoming a referendum on women’s bodies, since it’s women (according to the Republicans’ Book of Holy Misogyny) who like to have sex without wanting to get pregnant, and, if they do get pregnant, might want to have an abortion; women who demand, as former Senator Rick Santorum says, a “license to do things in the sexual realm that is [sic] counter to how things are supposed to be.”

You know, “sluts”.

Republicans in Congress have launched a dubious investigation of Planned Parenthood, the century-old women’s health organization, and tried to take away its funding. The Senate narrowly defeated an amendment that would have allowed employers to deny insurance coverage for anything the employer found morally or religiously objectionable: contraception, certainly, but perhaps also lung cancer treatment (“you should have stopped smoking”), HIV/Aids testing (“homosexuality is an abomination”), and pre-natal care for single women (“nice girls get themselves a husband before they get themselves a baby“).

When I stumbled across this article I thought GOOD SUPERNATURAL GUY, this is a remarkable dissertation of what the GOP Tea Party is all about in plain English AND it came from the objectivity of another country, The United Kingdom, (Leave it to the Brits to call it like it is). This WAR ON WOMEN (and it’s not SO CALLED it IS) made me think… (Which I do quite frequently… I don’t know why, maybe because I have a few BRAIN CELLS hanging around with nothing to do) what about all the unwanted little babies that the GOP Tea Party supposedly are trying to SAVE… (All the unwanted pregnancies that the male-chowder-heads inside the GOP Tea Party wish to force to term, so they can become a bunch of impoverished lazy bums – as the same GOP Tea Party would ascribe to them, once born) …what about those tiny little guys who were FORCED into existence even though no one wanted them. With a few KEY words typed in to Google, the on-line search machine gave me back ‘VOILA’ this link:

http://users.resist.ca/~kirstena/machallinstitutionhistory.html

Here is a heart wrenching EXCERPT: American Child Institution History

The history of child welfare for neglected and dependent children in the United States traces its roots to Elizabethan Poor Laws from the 1600′s and British common law that came to America via the colonists. Up until the 1800′s, abandoned and neglected children were placed in workhouses, and sold into indentured servitude or industrial labor, alongside destitute adults. Poor children often also ended up in poorhouses/almshouses alongside adults. In Robert L. Geiser’s book, The Illusion of Caring, (1973: Beacon Press, Boston), he says in 1795, there were 622 paupers in the New York City Almshouse and 259 of them, over 40 percent, were children under the age of nine. He goes on to write, “In 1821, in the Boston Almshouse were 78 sick persons, 77 children, 9 maniacs and idiots, and 155 unclassified inmates, mostly old and decrepit…In 1834, the Boston Almshouse (originally intended to be a workhouse for the able-bodied poor) now contained 134 sick persons, 132 children (104 of school age and 28 at nurse), and a distressing 61 persons insane or idiotic…” (p. 152). Eventually public outrage over conditions for poor children in adult work and poverty institutions removed children into specialized child institutions, which eventually gave way to a foster care revolution, ushered in by Charles Loring Brace, in the mid-1840′s. The 1800′s saw an economic depression, and the U.S. government began getting involved in child welfare, in addition to existing religious and private organizations devoted to the cause for differing reasons. By the mid-1900′s, foster care had begun to replace institutional care for dependent children. Yet even in 2008, we are experiencing what some call a “broken foster care system,” with children dying in foster care regularly, without proper state supervision. Hundreds of thousands of children have gone through American child institutions and foster care placements. The problem of what to do with abandoned, impoverished children is one as old as America herself. http://users.resist.ca/~kirstena/machallinstitutionhistory.html

HEY FOLKS, that’s the America the Republican GOP Tea Party wishes to take us back to… I just can’t help but wonder, (another past-time for those pesky BRAIN CELLS with not much to do) WHO ARE OUR LEADERS? Are they the educated folk that we elect OR are THEY the unenlightened, scared to death, small minded ignorants who complain and throw hissy-fits because we have come a long way from the puritanical pathetic people of yesteryear (YOU KNOW THE ONES WHO USE TO BURN OLD LADIES AT THE STAKE http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_by_burning )? thinkingblue

Please forgive me but I must re-blog this video, it shows the GOP Tea Party misogyny and their lack of Public Morality so thoroughly with honesty. Thank you Robert Reich.

A War On Women? Poppycock!

Hypocrisy To The Highest Degree.

The GOP is still trying to deny that they are waging a WAR ON WOMEN even though everything they do, every word that comes from their lips, every bill they try to push, affirms otherwise. A few examples in my own words below but don’t take my arrogant opinion of anger towards the SOB, Oops I mean GOP, just read the article The Campaign Against Women for REAL HARD EVIDENCE that proves, indeed the GOP/TP Republicans are waging a political war on all us women. (only those of us who are either low income or low middle income because wealthy women will be able to override the GOP’s unfair laws against females, with M-O-N-E-Y.)

ABORTION – GOP is whittling away at Roe v. Wade until it no longer exists.

ACCESS TO HEALTH CARE – GOP wishes to defund Planned Parenthood, denying low income women life saving medical treatment.

EQUAL PAY- GOP does not believe women deserve the same wages as men for the same jobs.

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE – The GOP wishes to omit new protections for gay, Indian, student and immigrant abuse victims … GOP also wish to roll back protections for immigrant women whose status is dependent on a spouse, making it more likely that they will stay with their abusers, at real personal risk… AND THE GOP IS STILL INSISTING THAT ‘THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A WAR ON WOMEN…

Say What?

NOW TURN ON YOUR TV AND TUNE IN TO FOX NEWS TO HEAR, Bill O’Reilly, Sean Hannity, and Neil Cavuto clamor,

“Par-don My French, Folks… ‘A WAR ON WOMEN’ Poppycock and Fiddlesticks!!  IT’S JUST A LIBERAL PLOT PERPETRATED BY DEMOCRATS”.

You Decide?   thinkingblue

The Campaign Against Women
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/20/opinion/sunday/the-attack-on-women-is-real.html

The rich are not job creators,

I AM A JOB CREATOR!

I once wrote a brief summary on how my family helped create jobs, for an on-line petition. I can’t remember the petition but I’ve located the word doc that I created with my 2 cents worth:

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“Congress keeps mum on how jobs can be created; they seem to be telling us with their silence that, THEY HAVE NO IDEA HOW TO CREATE JOBS. How strange is that, when my family has created jobs by repairing our infrastructure… i.e. NEW ROOF (the old one was shot and leaked) NEW SEPTIC TANK (the old one cracked and became a health hazard) NEW WATER PUMP (the old one quit working and we were without water) not to mention, washing machine, air-conditioner, hot water tank, and ALL AROUND HANDYMAN repairs. Congress can’t create jobs, but my “low income” household can, WHAT GIVES?”

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It goes without saying how we, the 99 % buy gasoline that keep BIG OIL filthy rich with profits; Purchasing food and umpteen other needs that make those who payout dues to ALEC, wealthy beyond their dreams. {{{American Legislative Exchange Council}}} (www.justice.org/alec)

And, I can’t begin to express how much of our hard earned LOW WAGES goes out to Big Pharma, Big Medicine and Big Insurance… Oh, and let us not forget the $$$, we shell over to Big Education making DEBT the real lifelong college career.)

Yes indeed, we are the JOB CREATORS and each and every one of us should thank one another for keeping this country running. (Yet The Corporate Personhood will step on our face every chance they get, TELLING US, IT’S OUR OWN DAMN FAULT BECAUSE WE ARE THE CAUSE OF THE PAIN WE FEEL.)

It’s enough to make us SCREAM a collective “UNCLE”!

UPDATE: The above statements are all true and we the 99% have been clamoring the inequities from THE TOP OF MOUNTAINS and until now, our Uproars have fallen on deaf ears.

The 1% corporate personhood have made this country’s income inequities a business where only the VERY WEALTHY reap any rewards. Not only that, they have convinced many of the populous, that only they, know what’s best for we hoi polloi.

They call themselves JOB CREATORES and it doesn’t matter who proves them wrong because Fox Fake News comes to the rescue and convinces their loyal viewers it’s all a LIBERAL PLOT to take down our country.

Please sit back and listen to ONE OF THEM, one of the ONE PERCENTERS TELL IT LIKE IT REALLY IS.

Mr. Nick Hanauer, please tell me sweetheart, WHY DID IT TAKE YOU SO LONG???

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The liberal ideal is that everyone should have fair access and fair opportunity. This is not equality of result. It’s equality of opportunity. There’s a fundamental difference. ~~Robert Reich~~

Equality of outcome, equality of condition, or equality of results is a controversial political concept. Although it is not always clearly defined, it is usually taken to describe a state in which people have approximately the same material wealth or, more generally, in which the general conditions of their lives are similar. Achieving this requires reducing or eliminating material
inequalities between individuals or households in a society. This could involve a transfer of income and/or wealth from wealthier to poorer individuals, or adopting other institutions designed to promote equality of condition from the start. The concept is central to some political ideologies and is used regularly in political discourse, often in contrast to the term equality of opportunity. A related way of defining equality of outcome is to think of it as “equality in the
central and valuable things in life.”

Equal Opportunity, sometimes known as Equality of opportunity, is a term which has differing definitions and there is no consensus as to the precise meaning. In the classical sense, equality of opportunity is closely aligned with the concept of equality before the law, and ideas of meritocracy.

Equality of opportunity is in philosophical contrast against the concept of equality of outcome.

Examples:

Some use it as a descriptive term for an approach intended to provide a certain social environment in which people are not excluded from the activities of society, such as education, employment, or health care, on the basis of immutable traits. Unfair opportunity practices include measures taken by an organization to ensure fairness in the employment process. A basic definition of equality is the idea of equal treatment and respect.

In job advertisements and descriptions, the fact that the employer is an equal opportunity employer is sometimes indicated by the abbreviations EOE or MFDV which stands for Minority, Female, Disabled, Veteran.
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Equal opportunity 1) n. a right supposedly guaranteed by both federal and many state laws against any discrimination in employment, education, housing or credit rights due to a person’s race, color, sex (or sometimes sexual orientation), religion, national origin, age or handicap. A person who believes he/she has not been granted equal opportunity or has been outright sexually
harassed or discriminated against may bring a lawsuit under federal and most state laws, or file a complaint with the federal Equal Opportunity Employment Commission or a state equal opportunity agency.

2) adj. a term applied to employers, lenders and landlords, who advertise that they are “equal
opportunity employers,” subtly suggesting all others are not, even though they are required by law to be so. (See: affirmative action)

We always knew this but now we know why.

The below article is the BEST explanation I have come upon so far that explains why the GOP/TP seems to exhibit such hate toward everything and everybody that does not share their warped opinion of reality. It is a must read if you seek help for the anquish that has built up in the brains of those of us who think. thinkingblue

PS: Notice the date is February 17, 2012, I never did get to blog this for some reason but it’s too good to let stand idle in my blogging folder.

Right-wingers have occasioned much recent comment. Their behavior in the Republican debates has caused even jaded observers to react like an Oxford don stumbling upon a tribe of headhunting cannibals. In those debates where the moderators did not enforce decorum, these right-wingers, the Republican base, behaved with a single lack of dignity. For a group that displays its supposed pro-life credentials like a neon sign, the biggest applause lines resulted from their hearing about executions or the prospect of someone dying without health insurance. Who are these people and what motivates them? To answer, one must leave the field of conventional political theory and enter the realm of psychopathology. Three books may serve as field guides to the farther shores of American politics and the netherworld of the true believer. Most estimates calculate the percentage of Republican voters who are religious fundamentalists at around 40 percent; in some key political contests, such as the Iowa caucuses, the percentage is closer to 60. Because of their social cohesion, ease of political mobilization and high election turnout, fundamentalists have political weight even beyond their raw numbers. An understanding of their leaders, infrastructure and political goals is warranted. Max Blumenthal has done the work in his book “Republican Gomorrah: Inside the Movement that Shattered the Party.” Blumenthal investigates politicized fundamentalism and provides capsule bios of such movement luminaries as James Dobson, Tony Perkins, John Hagee and Ted Haggard. The reader will conclude that these authority figures and the flocks they command are driven by a binary, Manichean vision of life and a hunger for conflict. Their minds appear to have no more give and take than that of a terrier staring down a rat hole. Blumenthal examines the childhoods of these religious-right celebrities and reveals a significant quotient of physical and mental abuse suffered at the hands of parents. His analysis of the obvious sadomasochistic element in Mel Gibson’s films – so lionized by the right wing – is enough to give one the creeps. But the book is by no means a uniformly depressing slog: the chapter titled “Satan in a Porsche,” about fundamentalist attempts to ban pornography, approaches slapstick. According to the author, the inner life of fundamentalist true believers is the farthest thing from that of a stuffily proper Goody Two Shoes. They seem tormented by demons that those in the reality-based community scarcely experience. That may explain their extraordinary latitude in absolving their political and ecclesiastical heroes of their sins: while most of us might regard George W. Bush as a dry drunk resentful of his father, Newt Gingrich as a sociopathic serial adulterer and Ted Haggard as a pathetic specimen in terminal denial, their followers on the right apparently believe that the greater the sin, the more impressive the salvation – so long as the magic words are uttered and the penitent sinner is washed in the Blood of the Lamb. This explains why people like Gingrich can attend “values voter” forums and both he and the audience manage to keep straight faces. Far from being a purpose-driven life, the existence of many true believers is a crisis-driven life that seeks release, as Blumenthal asserts, in an “escape from freedom.” An observer of the right-wing phenomenon must explain the paradox of followers who would escape from freedom even as they incessantly invoke the word freedom as if it were a mantra. But freedom so defined does not mean ordinary civil liberties like the prohibition of illegal government search and seizure, the right of due process, or the right not to be tortured. The hard right has never protested the de facto abrogation of much of the Bill of Rights during the last decade. In the right-wing id, freedom is the emotional release that a hostile and psychologically repressed person feels when he is finally able to lash out at the objects of his resentment. Freedom is his prerogative to rid himself of people who are different, or who unsettle him. Freedom is merging into a like-minded herd. Right-wing alchemy transforms freedom into authoritarianism. MORE HERE

I did this video when Pastor Dennis Terry told his flock he is sick and tired of being told this is not a Christian Nation. He then resorted to schoolyard bullying tactics and told all who are non-christain and or liberal to… GET OUT!

What’s So Strange About Mormonism?

A Religion By Any Other Name Is Still Silly.

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Today, I came across the above image on facebook and thought at first, HOW SILLY that people who believe in this Mormon faith would actually wear magic underwear to protect them from danger. Then I thought, IT’S NO CRAZIER THAN SOME OF THE OTHER suppositions that religions teach their flocks to assert as true; thus, today’s blog.

The magic underwear (or undergarment) is just another fairytale belief from a supernatural and superstitious world that religions EVERYWHERE project. Mormonism, in my ‘book’ is not any stranger than the other belief systems that rely on some enchanted faith. They all tell their followers to TRUST ME AND YOU WILL BE REWARDED IN AN AFTERLIFE. Now who in the HELL can disprove that???  The sycophants of MOST religions are led to believe that they will win the lottery once their earthly existence has expired. Why and how can they possibly believe in such a ridiculous delusion?

Because it was written down on parchment or paper by some other delusional (but educated enough to know how to write) human being and these antiquated essays were gathered together through the years, put in a binder and labeled SCRIPTURE.

Well, for me, I’d rather view a sunset and feel gloriously part of the greatest mystery mankind can experience; the unfathomable, unknowable truth of existence.

So please, don’t subject to ridicule another person’s belief system when you, yourself believe in the same ridiculous notions of the supernatural in your own orthodoxy. thinkingblue

PS: I once knew a very religious (Catholic) person who would make endless fun of those who believed in UFO’s and aliens from another planet…

Excerpt
below from this article: http://davewhittle.net/2012/04/05/truth/what-mormons-really-believe-get-ready-for-the-anti-mormon-bigotry-parade

EXCERPT: “Do Mormons REALLY believe
all that?”

The answer is usually no – but
I’ll admit: we Mormons believe some rather strange
things. For example, we believe God the Father and Jesus
Christ appeared to a 14-year old boy in upstate New York in
1820. We believe that same boy, with the utterly unremarkable
name of Joseph Smith, received engraved plates of gold from
an angel and, through revelation, translated those plates,
published the translation that is now The Book of Mormon, and
established a church with hundreds of adherents – all
before he reached the age of 25. We believe in modern
prophets and in personal revelation. The practice of our
religion makes us objects of ridicule as well. No coffee,
tea, tobacco or alcohol? No pre-marital or extramarital sex?
Mormons in good standing pay a full tithe? Once polygamy was
OK but now it’s not? A previous policy preventing the
blacks from receiving the Priesthood that was rescinded by
revelation as recently as 1978? Proxy baptisms for our
deceased ancestors and other secret (we say sacred)
ceremonies inside temples? Ceremonial undergarments as a
remembrance of our temple covenants? Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes,
yes, yes, yes, yes, and yes.

MORE HERE: http://davewhittle.net/2012/04/05/truth/what-mormons-really-believe-get-ready-for-the-anti-mormon-bigotry-parade

Everyone and I mean EVERYONE, every last American alive today should watch this video. Robert Reich hits the proverbial nail on its EVER LOVING HEAD. Please watch, it’s very important, this may save America from the wealthy corporate personhoods (banksters) who wish to turn our democracy into a plutocracy – oligarchy. Thinkingblue

Robert Reich: Public vs. Private Morality

PLUTOCRACY

1. The rule or power of wealth or of the wealthy.

2. A government or state in which the wealthy class rules.

3. A class or group ruling, or exercising power or influence, by virtue of its wealth.

Please Tell The DNC To Help With The Scott Walker Wisconsin Recount

Democratic National Committee: Invest In The Scott Walker Recall Now!

By Mary Magnuson (Contact)

To be delivered to: Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Chairperson, Democratic National Committee

Democratic National Committee & Debbie Wasserman Schultz, invest now in the crucial fight to remove Scott Walker from office in Wisconsin–the people have worked hard and it’s time to help.

As a Wisconsin progressive working day and night to recall Scott Walker, I’m shocked: The DNC still isn’t giving financial support to the recall fight in Wisconsin. After more than a year of grassroots efforts, Wisconsin citizens have accomplished more than anyone thought possible. We now have a Democratic challenger to Scott Walker who is neck and neck in the polls, even though Tom Barrett is being outspent by Walker’s millions from out-of-state donations. There is no more time for the Democratic National Committee to wait–if Walker wins, it would be a huge setback to Democrats in races across the country this year. We need the DNC’s support immediately!

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I don’t understand at all what is happening here. The DNC holding back money that would help Right a grievous Wrong committed against the people? Maybe the DNC has begotten two more initials … DNC/TP

I dearly hope not, we are all screwed if this is the case. thinkingblue

PLEASE SIGN: http://signon.org/sign/democratic-national-committe?source=s

There are currently 90,920 signatures

Barney Frank, who knows Mitt Romney better than any of us, detected something very mean in Mitt Romney. The latest news on a hazing incident back in Mitt Romney’s high school years may prove Mr. Frank right. thinkingblue.

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With Mitt Romney set to give the commencement address at Liberty University on Saturday, here are 10 things you might not know about the private evangelical Christian university in Lynchburg, Virginia.http://www.politico.com/news/stories

1. Founded in 1971 by Jerry Falwell, the fundamentalist Baptist preacher who died in 2007.

2. Costs about $25,834 per year, including tuition, fees and housing.

3. “Handholding is the only appropriate form of personal contact,” according to the school handbook, “The Liberty Way.”

4. Is the largest Christian university in the world, with some 12,500 on-campus students and 70,000 online.

5. Students may go to the movie theater — but R-rated films are strictly prohibited.

6. Dress code for women prohibits “anything tight, scant, backless, see-through, low in the neckline or revealing the midriff (in any position) is immodest and unacceptable.”

7. Canned the campus Democratic club in 2009 because of the national party’s stance on abortion and gay rights.

8. Banned at commencement: silly string, noisemakers, firearms, balloons, alcohol, needles, and wrapped presents.

9. The school mascot’s name: Sparky, an eagle.

10. And its athletic clubs: The Flames.

Read more:

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Jerry Falwell Quotes

The 10 Craziest Things Rev. Jerry Falwell Ever Said

10. “The idea that religion and politics don’t mix was invented by the Devil to keep Christians from running their own country.”

9.  ”The ACLU is to Christians what the American Nazi party is to Jews.”

8. “I hope I live to see the day when, as in the early days of our country, we won’t have any public schools. The churches will have taken them over again and Christians will be running them. What a happy day that will be!”

7. “AIDS is the wrath of a just God against homosexuals. To oppose it would be like an Israelite jumping in the Red Sea to save one of Pharaoh’s charioteers … AIDS is not just God’s punishment for homosexuals; it is God’s punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals.”

6. “Nothing will motivate conservative evangelical Christians to vote Republican in the 2008 presidential election more than a Democratic nominee named Hillary Rodham Clinton – not even a run by the devil himself … I certainly hope that Hillary is the candidate. She has $300 million so far. But I hope she’s the candidate. Because nothing will energize my [constituency] like Hillary Clinton. If Lucifer ran, he wouldn’t.” –at a “Values Voter Summit”

5. “Grown men should not be having sex with prostitutes unless they are married to them.”

4. “Billy Graham is the chief servant of Satan in America.”

3. “He is purple — the gay-pride color, and his antenna is shaped like a triangle — the gay pride symbol.” –from a “Parents Alert” issued in Jerry Falwell’s National Liberty Journal, warning that “Tinky Winky,” a character on the popular PBS children’s show, “Teletubbies,” may be gay

2. “You’ve got to kill the terrorists before the killing stops. And I’m for the president to chase them all over the world. If it takes 10 years, blow them all away in the name of the Lord.”

1. “The abortionists have got to bear some burden for this because God will not be mocked. And when we destroy 40 million little innocent babies, we make God mad. I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People for the American Way — all of them who have tried to secularize America — I point the finger in their face and say ‘you helped this happen.’” –on the 9/11 attacks

http://politicalhumor.about.com/od/.

Right-WingNut Blog Called ‘The American Thinker’

This is so sad… The right-wing blogs are out to defend George Zimmermann while painting Trayvon Martin as a non-victim. For the life of me, I cannot understand their supposed logic. They will write, blog and publish propaganda to prove they are the smart ones. It’s not only sad, it’s PATHETIC! Read this one that I just came across…

http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/05/

Such hypocrits calling themselves THE AMERICAN THINKER and how strange when they do ANYTHING but THINK!
They should be called
THE AMERICAN THINKLESS!

http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/05/

Here’s a quote from one of the writers on this blog:

Steven Plaut – americnthinker.com
It is impossible to understand politics in the world today without grasping the fundamental fact that there exist two different lefts. I propose that the two be referred to by everyone as the Stupid Left and the Satanic Left. The two are very different, although they work together. People who are part of the first are simply stupid people. People who are part of the second may in fact be quite shrewd, but are evil and nefarious. There is no third type of leftist.

I will not call these people stupid (even though they are) because stupid isn’t strong enough. These people are delusional, they live in a world of hate and will twist the truth to fit into this place of loathing (from whence they came)… I just wished I had a clue as to WHY ordinary people agree with them, against their own best interests? Maybe, just maybe the contributors (say, Koch Brothers, Karl Rover et al) of these right-wingnut blogs are masterminds at INDOCTRINATION. — YA THINK? thinkingblue!