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Melissa Harris-Lacewell (I just love her) cited some interesting academic work on Rachel Maddow the other night. It showed how people who are generally disconnected from political discourse and the public square get frightened when contentious issues come up and they then tend to turn to authoritarian figures and arguments. Sure explained a lot to me.
It is obvious from listening to the tea baggers that they are uninformed. Not stupid necessarily, but “ignorant” in the sense that they know nothing at all about our government, how laws are made, what the situation is in health insurance today, etc. They hear the shouting from the ReThuglican Noise Machine and they get all worked up and frightened and turn to the authoritarians like Lameball and O’Lielly and Faux News in general and Dick Armey and his crew who are more than willing to 1) frighten them, and then 2) tell them what to do.
What’s the answer? I have no idea. You can’t force feed civics into the head of someone who just wants to watch American Idol.
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