Renewable Revolution

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The Great Betrayal is in the DNA of movement conservatism. It is founded on fraud, lies, and promises they have no intention of keeping. It is the selling of snake oil on steroids. It has been made possible by a systematic dumbing down of America, a war on rational thought in the service of “the gut” which is easily led around by the nose and bumfoozled.

And it will continue until we openly acknowledge it and move to fight back. They’ve spent decades on this; rolling it back won’t happen overnight or with one “wave election”. We have to strike deeper, fight harder, and we must persist. Eternal vigilance, because it’s never over.

"Bumfoozled." Perfect.

Rust never sleeps.

Quote of the year.

Yup. But the sheer criminality, malice and aforethought of even coming up with this "strategy" boggles the mind.

I listened to that radio show I posted about earlier and the portion where Jane Meyer describes  the step by step MENS REA of these Capitalist Republican bastard "think tanks" (MOSTLY FUNDED BY THE FOSSIL FUEL "industry"  subsidy welfare queens ) to twist. lie and distort the truth to serve profit over people and planet is enough, in a sane society, to put them in prison for a LONG TIME, after all their ill gotten assets are stripped from them, of course. 

Jane Mayer   on the Rise of Conservative Orthodoxy

http://www.wnyc.org/story/on-the-media-2017-05-05/