Friday, September 17, 2010

The Limbaugh Effect


Here's Rush:

We really live, folks, in two worlds. There are two worlds. We live in two universes. One universe is a lie. One universe is an entire lie. Everything run, dominated, and controlled by the left here and around the world is a lie. The other universe is where we are, and that's where reality reigns supreme and we deal with it. And seldom do these two universes ever overlap. ...

The Four Corners of Deceit: Government, academia, science, and media. Those institutions are now corrupt and exist by virtue of deceit. That's how they promulgate themselves; it is how they prosper.

And the Grist's Commentary:

"The right's project over the last 30 years has been to dismantle the post-war liberal consensus by undermining trust in society's leading institutions. Experts are made elites; their presumption of expertise becomes self-damning. They think they're better than you. They talk down to you. They don't respect people like us, real Americans."

He/she has good graphs that show how Americans have decreasing trust in all major institutions over the last generation, except one: the military.

Chilling.





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Christopher said...

Yeah for the military! Makes me want to put back on my uniform and dance around. Oh wait, I don't think my fat ass can fit in it anymore!