Please folks, you should not automatically dismiss the experiences and information that Doug R knows is true.

People like Sarah Palin and people who like Sarah Palin know what is true for them. They are people who feel threatened by progressives who seem to be more glib and intelligent. Getting and keeping power for folks like themselves IS A SCARY uphill battle.

When they lose jobs, homes and opportunities while seeing financiers who defrauded the country yet get bailed out along with 100 million dollar bonus' for their family, they GET PISSED and worried about what is happening to them and the country.


When they are told that (the old Reagan saw) "Big Govermnment is taking over the country" they naturally believe it.

BIG OBAMA GOVERNMENT HAS TAKEN OVER:

The Banks
The Auto Companies
The Medical Industry
The right to life for fetus' and grandma
The Medicare Industry
The US MIlitary
The IRS
The Schools
The Church
The right to Pray
The Federal Reserve
The right to drill for OIL
The NSA Obama enemies list
The Weather
Their Guns and Ammo
The lives of all God Fearing believers by burying them in
National Deficit debt for generations... etc.

THESE POOR FOLKS BELIEVE SOME or ALL of this partly because, as silly as it sounds, it is all partly true when twisted and limited thinking is applied.

Civil war secession sounds good to them when they are promised pie in the sky freedom, prosperity and God's law for their own State without Federal Taxes.

In the absence of a willingness to be educated, people will follow the message that makes them feel GOOD or ANGRY or both.
Outrage, sadness, envy and every other powerful emotion is easier to embrace than hard study of facts and actual systems of corporate and goverment interaction.

It depresses me how gullible and easily led these people are when deluded by a guy who says he speaks for God or a Corporate Lobbying Group dressed in sheeps clothing.

Tell them the exact opposite of the motives of the people leading them by the nose and they buy it all, until they find themselves morally and monitarily broke.

Most Christian Evangelists do not know their cult bracnh of Christianity began in 1870 England. Most people in the US do not know that Corporate law making the company a Human Being with exceptional rights in the law was not an act by the founding fathers.

Educating oneself is a lonely process compared to the feel good Amen Choir or a Sarah Palin speech about Real Americans like themselves.
It feels good for an outsider to feel like an insider for a change.

The human condition is such that we all feel like outsiders since we have both solitary and herd behaviors in our tribal society evolution.

SO Barney, that is the planet they live on, its our planet. So don't be mean. The best thing you can do is let them feel happy about learning somthing so that they can start adding to that something until they actually know who Hitler was and what fascism did and that Skin heads and Corporations are the fascists of today.