And watching FOX News turned me, a big D former UAW card carrying democrat, into gasp a knuckle-dragging repuglican!
Let's dispense with, once and for all the sophomoric, false notion that FOX News, Drug Limpbaugh, etc, are turning tens of thousands of former liberals into republicans.
MONEY/WEALTH is actually what turns people toward the Right.
Sorry, just because "you know eight people at work who watch FOX News all day" and thus "they are idiots who believe the lies and won't listen to reason"-- is hardly empirical evidence proving that tens of or hundreds of thousands of lifelong democrats are now all of a sudden voting for the GOP.
All the proof required this is nonsense is the last POTUS election.
Obama crushed Rmoney. totally crushed him. This happened in spite of the fact FOX and all of the other pathetic, simpering front men and women for the one percent slandered and abused the President in the worst way. the anti-Obama propaganda was 24/7 for what? Obama's entire first term?
So WHERE were all of these "swayed democratic voters" who voted against Obama? ZERO for the most part.
Here in fact is what turns so called liberals into conservatives: WEALTH.
Lottery winners tend to switch towards support for a right-wing political party and to become less egalitarian, according to new research on UK data by Professor Andrew Oswald of the University of Warwick and Professor Nattavudh Powdthavee of the London School of Economic and the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, University of Melbourne.
Their study, published as a new University of Warwick working paper under the title “Does Money Make People Right-Wing and Inegalitarian: A Longitudinal Study of Lottery Wins”, shows that the larger the win, the more people tilt to the right. The study uses information on thousands of people and on lottery wins up to 200,000 pounds sterling. The authors say it is the first research of its kind.
The authors believe their paper has wide implications for how democracy works. Professor Oswald said he had become doubtful of the view that morality was an objective choice.
Let's also dispense with the fantasy-land notion that
getting rid of FOX News will magically cause the right wing bigots/sociopaths to
switch over to the democratic party and help democrats win elections-- that they obviously need to win-- but are not going to win this fall-- simply because our economy still stinks, and voters tend to blame the incumbents for a weak economy.
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/...