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My father always told me:
"If you want to go for a run, go for a run, don't look for company.
Sooner or later, on your fifth run or your twentieth, like-minded people will find you themselves."
And only recently have I realised that this principle works everywhere.
So, in every single one of the 43 states where Republicans are using voter suppression as a lever to hold onto power, the fulcrum stands… on a marsh.
If we switch briefly from metaphor to weird reality, the entire scam depends upon one man’s hypnotic power to make his followers believe whatever he wants them to believe, despite conclusive evidence conclusively confirmed to the contrary.
The scam no longer depends on sleight-of-hand but on over four years of incessant conditioning to make belie…
Carl Sagan summed it up when he said
“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.”
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
There’s a huge problem here in people’s propensity to have blind faith in things that are absolutely incompatible, a tendency that is overdeveloped in America; one that lays people open to delusions and to the total misinterpretation of science, reason and religion.
The strangest thing—though, in one way or another, this kind of thing has happened time and again in history—is how self-professed Christians have been taken in by this demonic pseudo-Father figure. If they were able to attend to Christ’s message and abandon the adoration of Mammon for just one moment, daylight would get in and dispel their delusion.
Any genuine religion—as opposed to worshipping shattered splinters of a confused idea of God—would have the same effect.