Hard to disagree with what you said. So I won’t. Bul I’ll add this.
Conservative media lies to conservatives because conservatives (in the modern sense) WANT to be lied to.
I harp on it regularly. When you look at how easily supposed conservatives tuned into raving fanboys with Romney (and the ‘He sounds like Reagan’ crap was everywhere by election day) it’s no wonder the ConservMedia caters to that market. Because fact on the ground show that a few well placed words by the right people send herds stampeding into whatever camp they’re told.
Sure, there was chaos in the primaries. Ever wonder why? So they could create that stampede perhaps? To a fully Liberal candidate? And most did. And trashed anyone who would not join the cause. And most refused loudly to let a little thing like principle slow their march to the sea.
But conservatives seem to enjoy the hamster wheel/rat maze. Because instead of supporting and doing what they claim to be right, they just search for someone to tell them what is and lead them. Amd compromise their way into getting the opposite of what they want.
If one knows what is right, one should do that. And ‘compromise’ is the sure path to not ending up with what you know to be right.
Simple math. But I guess Barbie was right afterall. Math is HARD.