Quote Originally Posted by Moveon View Post
The facts presented by jcb and pontooner are right on the money. I don't really do that much work these days as I know that as you say "they fall on deaf ears. These people. Geo, TimE, Bonefish, and a few others don't read what we post. To them were are just left-wing people to be looked down on. So I stopped wasting my time telling them the real facts most of the time. I still do somewhat. A good friend of mine told me to just ridicule them. They spend all their time on FoX and listing to Right Wing radio shows all the time so their minds are closed to real facts. We could make posts like his all day long and they won't read it or if they read it they just ignore the real facts.

There is another web forum or two that I frequent from time to time and they are the very same way. Full of right-wing people who won't listen to the real news programs. You can't reason with them. The guy that runs the web forum that I went to is a right-winger who thinks that ANTIFA led the insurrection on the US Capitol Building and that only a few Trump supporters were there innocently. My god where do these people get these lies? This country needs to shut down lying TV entertainment shows like Fox. If I really thought that reasoning with these people would work then I would do so. I still love to see you guys put these right-wing radicals in their place though. So keep it up. I'll continue to make fun of them in the meantime.
Yeah I don't even bother trying to reason with these right wing media brainwashed types anymore. Just look at Tim E's response to what jcb wrote and realize that there are million and millions of these people out there. It's a sad state of affairs and I don't know what the answer is to get these folks back into the realm of reality. You can't just reverse the effects of 25+ years of right wing media demonizing the left and then add in that over the years you have the Republican party wrapping themselves in the flag while embracing the rhetoric promoted by the fraudsters in the right wing media industry.

They cry that the media is skewed to the left, well maybe that's mostly because the truth happens to fall that way more often than not. They'll try to equate the coverage by Fox News, Newsmax, OAN, Breitbart, Epoch Times.... with CNN, CBS, NBC, New York Times, Washington Times... when it's like comparing someone getting a speeding ticket for doing 65mph in a 55mph zone to someone who got a speeding ticket doing 110mph in a 55mph zone. Yeah they both broke the law and got speeding tickets but one is so much more worse than the other it's not even worth comparing them.

Over the past 4 years I keep finding myself coming back to a couple of sayings when dealing with these folks.

It's a lot easier to fool someone than it is to convince them they've been fooled.

You're entitled to your opinions but you're not entitled to your own facts.