no. 25

Notice how closely the current Republican party models itself on the “Lost Cause’ movement of the South and the Civil War.

You know those theories. The South never really lost the war. Slavery was never the real issue. Robert E Lee never really lost a battle. Reconstruction was a bad, bad thing. Etc.

Now with the GOP it’s a similar denial of reality. Reagan never raised taxes or caused deficits. These things happened TO him. W didn’t start wars, they were forced on him by a Congress who voted to go. The massive increase in the money supply wasn’t accomplished by GOP Fed Chairs appointed by GOP presidents. It just happened. The recession wasn’t caused by the banks’ worldwide distribution of fraudulent MBS but by the Community Reinvestment Act forcing lenders to give money to poor people at gun point.

It’s really a brilliant way to conduct yourself from a political scientist point of view. All it requires is absolute loyalty to a mythical set of facts and complete discipline within the leadership cadre.

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