Some people can’t be educated because they don’t want to be educated.
True, but they can still be refuted, and perhaps ridiculed until they shrink back to Alex Jones’ website or some such “conspiracy bubble” forum.
True enough.
We talk about Bush Derangement Syndrome or Palin Derangement Syndrome, where hatred of a political figure causes liberals to lose all tenuous grip on sanity, but we’re also saddled with ODS, where people here are so desperate get anything on Obama that they’ll believe the craziest nonsense.
It’s sad, really, largely because it’s what he wants. We rant and rave about Photoshop traces on a photo of his grandparents and the right slowly loses credibility among the mushy moderates of the country, the ones we need to win a national election. For every nut job conspiracy theory, we find it just a little harder to effectively criticize Obamacare.
Cynical hustlers like Farrah don’t care about that. They don’t need our agenda to succeed, they don’t care about the well-being of our country. They only care about making money, and they can make money pandering to our worst instincts. No matter what the greater damage.
That’s why these lies need to be stopped here, before they get out into the larger political theater and mark all conservatives as unhinged. We must police our own.