John Masko: Shy Conservatives Keep the Left in Its Bubble

I agree--and that's one of many reasons I've been so outspoken about this stuff IRL (and here) since everything over on the blue team went over the edge.

   I can't help noting, however, that this sounds a lot like what the left likes to call "blaming the victim"... It's our fault that they're doing what they're doing, because we didn't speak up enough against it it...

   Look, it's not like these were subtle points that they just weren't seeing...

   These are big, obvious errors that anybody can see.

   It's not that we didn't point things ot to them.

   It's that there's no reasoning with (many of) them anymore.

   Nevertheless, I do agree with Masko's point in large part.

   The left kinda deserves its misery. They did it to themselves. I speak up about it IRL (a) because truth matters, (b) because I hate that Orwellian psychopathy with a fiery passion, (c) because they're dragging the country (and the West) down with them. But also, just a little bit, because I feel sorry for them.

   One excuse I will make for them: they've got it a bit harder than other we do because they listen to their own massive, well-oiled, mega-well-funded propaganda apparatus. The NYT, e.g., is, inter alia, a truly amazing propaganda organ. Sure, it's also an impressive news-reporting organization...so long as that news doesn't impinge too uncomfortably on progressive-left dogma...

   Righty propaganda is a pathetic thing. You can basically only find it on overtly RW sites...which almost all look bush league at best. You always know you're reading something from the right. Almost all of it looks kinda amateurish. The Times, though...and the rest of that ilk...the Atlantic, the NYRB, even Scientific American... That's some slick shit, man. Times New Roman itself has probably suckered a fair number of people. It just all looks so good. Well-written, well-credentialed, just about impeccable in all the overt ways. Even the ads! Ever look at the ads on conservative sites? With only one or two exceptions, they're horrifying. I sometimes have to navigate away because they're so repulsive. It's actually one of the reasons I have a kind of low opinion of the right--whoever's clicking on those ads has problems, man...