Hence their simple-minded propaganda. Hence their clown contenders for POTUS, past and present.
A GOP defecter spills the beans:
"I Know How to Beat Republicans"
I know how to beat Republicans. Progressives do not know how to beat Republicans. You have to stick with a simple theme and keep pushing it.
The Occupy Wall Street movement was studiously ignored until the police in New York City started using violence and now it's gone viral, so you need to seize the moment, not have too many mixed messages, because that is just not going to play with Joe Average. If you're underwater with your mortgage, you understand the Wall Street thing. That was the whole point of the GOP: "Our propaganda has to be simple and repetitive."
People who are not authoritarian by nature are not going to march to the beat of the same drummer, but it's tricky. It can't be identical in style to the GOP - which is now directly appealing to irrational impulses - so there is a natural tension between keeping the message simple and not insulting the intelligence of an educated person, as so much of the GOP's recent messaging does.
Now I understand why I feel so insulted by the GOP clowns on display. It's like watching a really stupid slap stick comedy movie; kind of funny at first, but then becomes too stupid to watch to the end.
This also explains the GOP God-Users. Their base worship's god so much and believes so strongly that without god one is doomed. So all a GOPper candidate has to do is convince the believers that he/she is one of them and the followers automatically say baah, I mean Rah!!
It's the perfect manipulative propaganda strategy for non-thinkers and needers ( a need-er is someone that needs to be told what to do and how to live) (I made that up.)
Anyways the linked article is eye-opening. The strategy this defector talks about also explains to me how the Faux News method of using low-smart pundits and presentation to keep their dumbed down viewers entertained and well, dumb.
I am hoping that the more the GOP shows-off their stupid POTUS candidates, that their REAL disdain of not only their constituents, but all people below the 1%, that more people will wake up and see how the Corporate Puppet Makers are MOCKING us.
Republican Leaders really despise their base and everyone else..what makes them so apathetic and hate-filled? I think they lost their own human dignity and moral compass along the way because so many just let their god take care of it all and all they need to do is 'preach it' and let the money-makers control everything else. Hence, if one is poor, one must be a non-believer or lazy or not one of the blessed CHOSEN. OY!
I think it also explains that once one turns LEFT, one never goes back..
And I get riled up whenever I see human beings being used for/by nefarius means.