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<blockquote data-quote="804brown" data-source="post: 937921" data-attributes="member: 29553"><p>Don't take my word for it. Listen to what two former Republican ideologues, <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/davidfrum.html" target="_blank">David Frum</a> and <a href="http://www.niemanwatchdog.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=about.viewcontributors&bioid=342" target="_blank">Mike Lofgren</a>, have been saying. Frum warns that "<a href="http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/25/their-own-facts/" target="_blank">conservatives have built a whole alternative knowledge system, with its own facts, its own history, its own laws of economics</a>". The result is a "shift to ever more extreme, ever more fantasy-based ideology" which has "ominous real-world consequences for American society".</p><p>Lofgren complains that "<a href="http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/mehdi-hasan/2011/09/republican-party-congressional" target="_blank">the crackpot outliers of two decades ago have become the vital center today</a>". The Republican party, with its "prevailing anti-intellectualism and hostility to science" is appealing to what he calls the "low-information voter", or the "misinformation voter". While most office holders probably don't believe the "reactionary and paranoid claptrap" they peddle, "they cynically feed the worst instincts of their fearful and angry low-information political base". G Monbiot</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="804brown, post: 937921, member: 29553"] Don't take my word for it. Listen to what two former Republican ideologues, [URL="http://www.thedailybeast.com/davidfrum.html"]David Frum[/URL] and [URL="http://www.niemanwatchdog.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=about.viewcontributors&bioid=342"]Mike Lofgren[/URL], have been saying. Frum warns that "[URL="http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/25/their-own-facts/"]conservatives have built a whole alternative knowledge system, with its own facts, its own history, its own laws of economics[/URL]". The result is a "shift to ever more extreme, ever more fantasy-based ideology" which has "ominous real-world consequences for American society". Lofgren complains that "[URL="http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/mehdi-hasan/2011/09/republican-party-congressional"]the crackpot outliers of two decades ago have become the vital center today[/URL]". The Republican party, with its "prevailing anti-intellectualism and hostility to science" is appealing to what he calls the "low-information voter", or the "misinformation voter". While most office holders probably don't believe the "reactionary and paranoid claptrap" they peddle, "they cynically feed the worst instincts of their fearful and angry low-information political base". G Monbiot [/QUOTE]
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