Every once in a while I go and do something to depress myself. See, I have a friend I went to school with who is a Glenn Beck wingnut. and occasionally she will post something really egregious on Facebook and I have to respond.
Then all her wingnutty friends chime in. And they use the same stale arguments and right wing site links and keep saying they win and I know nothing.
The latest posts?
A quote from a "Marine" saying that he's "getting out before Obama makes being gay mandatory".
A couple of pieces about Climate Change.
A hit piece on the President talking about "all his vacations and how much they cost the taxpayer"
And then I argue and argue and can't walk away. And it's non stop. And always there's something inflammatory that I have to answer. And what they believe is so offensively wrong I get depressed thinking about how many people in this country actually believe this stuff.
Things they've shown me they believe in:
Die hard tenthers. I mean REALLY REALLY tenthers. Like Articles of Confederation tenthers.
And yes, they are also birthers.
They seriously believe that the NSDAP was a far left liberal organization and that the Nazi Party and the Third Reich was a Liberal thing. And I mean they SERIOUSLY believe this.
They are serious climate change deniers. And they won't or can't accept the evidence when it's staring them in the face.
They seriously believe that the ONLY accurate and factual news is what they see on Fox, RedState, National Review, and others of the usual suspects and that everything else is biased and lies to hide the "real truth".
I could go on and on. And we all know their beliefs. And what's infuriating is that they DOMINATE the Google. They have completely taken over the broader internet. You can't find the independent, objective non biased sites easily. They are all hidden by the plethora of right wing drivel dominating search engines.
And they are growing.
And I know I can't change their minds, and I know that they absolutely refuse to see the truth. And yet I keep at it and get angrier and angrier, and I can't leave once I start.
And yet I come back again and again to reply to these egregious posts.
Why do I do this? Why am I risking my sanity and depressing myself?
I don't know...